HARRY HUGHES, Governor

53

CHAPTER 8

(House Bill 1)

AN ACT concerning

Health Occupations

FOR the purpose of adding a new Article to the Annotated
Code of Maryland, to be designated and known as the
"Health Occupations Article", to revise, restate, and
recodify the laws of this State relating and pertaining
to certain health occupations, including audiology,
chiropractic, dentistry, electrology, funeral directing
and embalming, mortuary science, midwifery, nursing,
nursing home administrators, occupational therapy,
optometry, osteopathy, pharmacy, physical therapy,
medicine, podiatry, social work, speech pathology, and
practice as a certified psychologist or sanitarian;
reorganizing and standardizing the structure of the
laws relating to these health occupations; conforming
language and certain provisions relating and pertaining
to the licensing, registration, and certification of
certain persons who practice these health occupations
and certain establishments where these occupations are
practiced; revising, restating and recodifying the laws
relating and pertaining to the regulatory boards for
these health occupations and the Commission on Medical
Discipline; relating to the appointment,
qualifications, oaths, compensation, tenure, and
removal of members of the Commission and boards;
relating to quorum requirements, meetings, powers,
duties, and other administrative provisions for the
Commission and boards; changing the names of certain of
these boards; relating to the scope of practice within
these health occupations and exemptions for practicing
these health occupations under certain circumstances;
relating to the qualifications and examinations of
applicants for licenses, certifications, and permits;
relating to the issuance, scope, term, renewal,
reinstatement, and display of licenses, permits, and
certifications; relating to denial of applications,
disciplinary procedures, and appeals; with respect to
these and related matters, generally providing for
definitions, exemptions, procedures, rights and
remedies, prohibitions, and civil and criminal
penalties, and for the supervisory and regulatory
authority of the Commission and health occupations
boards; adding or revising short titles for each of the
laws concerning these health occupations; generally
relating to the powers and duties of the Commission and
health occupations boards and to all other matters
relating to these health occupations; repealing