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CS/HB 583: Health Care Practitioner Titles and Abbreviations

GENERAL BILL by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee ; Massullo ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Altman ; Chambliss

Health Care Practitioner Titles and Abbreviations; Provides use of specified titles or designations in connection with one's name constitutes practice of medicine; revises grounds for disciplinary action relating to practitioner's use of such titles or designations in identifying himself or herself to patients or in advertisements for health care services; requires health care practitioners to prominently display copies of their licenses; requires health care practitioners to also verbally identify themselves in specified manner to new patients.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/1/2023	House	• Filed
  2/7/2023	House	• Referred to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee • Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee • Referred to Health & Human Services Committee • Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
  3/7/2023	House	• 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  3/30/2023	House	• Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
  4/3/2023	House	• Favorable with CS by Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
  4/4/2023	House	• Reported out of Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee • Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) • CS Filed
  4/5/2023	House	• Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee • Referred to Health & Human Services Committee • Now in Health & Human Services Committee • 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
  4/13/2023	House	• Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
  4/17/2023	House	• Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee
  4/18/2023	House	• Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee • Bill released to House Calendar • Added to Second Reading Calendar
  5/2/2023	House	• Laid on Table

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• CS/HB 583, Committee Substitute 1 (Current Bill Version) Posted 4/4/2023 at 2:52 PM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	Health & Human Services Committee (Post-Meeting) 4/18/2023 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 230 (er)	Health Care Practitioner Titles and Designations	Harrell	Similar	Last Action: 3/11/2024 S Veto Message transmitted to Secretary of State

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  951049 - Amendment Between lines 163 and 164, insert:	Woodson	4/17/2023 10:45 AM	Failed to Adopt 4/17/2023	PDF

  Citations - Statutes (2)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  456.0651		Page 2 (pdf)
  456.072	Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement.	Page 7 (pdf)

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• HB 583, Original Filed Version Posted 2/1/2023 at 9:47 AM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee (Post-Meeting) 6/12/2023 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 230 (c2)	Health Care Practitioner Titles and Designations	Harrell	Compare	Last Action: 3/11/2024 S Veto Message transmitted to Secretary of State

  Committee Amendments (2)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  838897 - Strike All Amendment Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert:	Massullo	3/31/2023 6:11 PM	Adopted without Objection 4/3/2023	PDF
  138571 - Amendment to Amendment (838897) Remove line 194 of the amendment and insert:	Snyder	4/3/2023 2:01 PM	Adopted without Objection 4/3/2023	PDF

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  456.0393		Page 2 (pdf)

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