SB0973ham002 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Michael J. Zalewski

Filed: 5/4/2015

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 973

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 973 as follows:

on page 5, by replacing lines 6 through 10 with the following:

"licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, an advanced practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to transmit orders to a respiratory care practitioner, or a"; and

on page 12, by replacing lines 14 and 15 with the following:

"which only a licensed respiratory care practitioner or other authorized licensed personnel operating within the scope of".