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Nursing staff agency, renewal of registration, notice, and penalties for
failure to renew, provisions added; Board of Nursing proceedings,
records, and files, discovery or use as evidence in a civil action,
prohibited, and disclosure to a health occupation regulatory board,

provisions added................................................................................. 513 2963

Patient and Provider Appeal and Grievance Mechanisms, Task Force

to Study, established.......................................................................... 548 3107

Pharmacists -
Licensing, requirements for examination waiver, term, expiration
dates, renewal, and adoption of regulations, provisions added

and amended ................................................................................. 390 2600

Oral competency in the English language, demonstration for
license to practice, and waiver of certain licensing requirements

for graduates of foreign pharmacy schools, provisions added..... 511 2960

Physician assistant/nurse practitioner training program, appropriation

to .........................................................................................................          13 866

Physicians -

Credentialing organizations and primary source verification

systems, provisions added .............................................................. 529 3044

Disciplinary action by and corrective action agreements with Board

of Physician Quality Assurance, provisions added ....................... 419 2686

Identification as specialists by Board of Physician Quality

Assurance, provisions repealed ..................................................... 436 2735

Waiver of examination requirement for applicants who are licensed

to practice medicine in Canada, provisions added.......................          14 1001

Podiatrists and psychologists, notification and investigation of

complaints, requirements added ....................................................... 261 1757

Professional counselors and marriage and family therapists, certified,
authorization to practice while certificate in effect, provisions

clarified ............................................................................................... 422 2693

Psychologists, exceptions from licensing requirements for certain

activities and services, clarified ......................................................... 363 2489

Respiratory care practitioners, licensing and regulation, provisions

added ................................................................................................. 516 2972

Scholarship, tuition assistance and grant programs, appropriations to          13 867

Volunteer advanced life support unit members, occupational diseases

compensable under workers' compensation, provisions added ....... 118 1398

Health Planning and Cost Review —
Ambulatory surgical facility, freestanding, certificate of need

requirements for acquisition by a hospital, provisions added ......... 466 2815

Childbirth, insurance coverage for hospitalization and home visits,

requirements altered .....................'..................................................... 396 2611

397 2620

Health Care Access and Cost Commission, appropriation to ............          13 715

824
900
916
937

Health care policy, financing and regulation, appropriation to .........          13 819

916

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