Article archive / April 1, 2014
Originally published: . Volume 5, No. 8. Source pages: 4.
Senate Bill 649 by Senator Mills was introduced on April 1 and referred to the Committee on Senate and Government Affairs. The proposed law creates of the Louisiana State Health Care Profession Institute, a 27-member council to exist within the Louisiana State Health Care Profession Institute.
The Institute would be formed is to carry on research regarding health care professions. Duties would include: To consider needed improvements with the professions providing health care services and to make recommendations concerning the same to the legislature; To examine and study the scope of practices of health care professionals and of recommending needed reforms; To receive and consider suggestions from the legislature and the public generally as to issues regarding health care professions and the services such professions provide; To recommend from time to time such changes in the law as it deems necessary to modify or eliminate antiquated and inequitable scope of health care profession issues, and to bring the laws and regulations of the state, into harmony with modern conditions.
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