Minnesota Session Laws - 1999, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 226-S.F.No. 369 
                  An act relating to health occupations; permitting 
                  physician assistants to render care in disasters 
                  without physician and physician assistant agreements; 
                  proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
                  chapter 147A. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  [147A.23] [RESPONDING TO DISASTER SITUATIONS.] 
           (a) A registered physician assistant or a physician 
        assistant duly licensed or credentialed in a United States 
        jurisdiction who is responding to a need for medical care 
        created by a state or local disaster may render such care as the 
        physician assistant is able to provide, under the physician 
        assistant's license, registration, or credential, without the 
        need of a physician and physician assistant agreement as 
        required under section 147A.20.  Physician supervision, as 
        required under section 147A.09, must be provided under the 
        direction of an emergency medical director in accordance with 
        rules adopted by the emergency medical services regulatory board 
        under section 144E.16.  The physician assistant must establish a 
        temporary supervisory agreement with an emergency medical 
        director before rendering care. 
           (b) The physician who provides supervision to a physician 
        assistant while the physician assistant is rendering care in a 
        disaster in accordance with this section may do so without 
        meeting the requirements of section 147A.20. 
           (c) The supervising physician who otherwise provides 
        supervision to a physician assistant under a physician and 
        physician assistant agreement described in section 147A.20 shall 
        not be held medically responsible for the care rendered by a 
        physician assistant pursuant to paragraph (a).  Services 
        provided by a physician assistant under paragraph (a) shall be 
        considered outside the scope of the relationship between the 
        supervising physician and the physician assistant. 
           Presented to the governor May 21, 1999 
           Signed by the governor May 25, 1999, 11:45 a.m.