Bills to follow that impact you directly as a Nurse and/or Nurse Practitioner:

Health Care Practitioner Specialty Titles and Designations

Health Care Practitioner Specialty Titles and Designations; Prohibiting the use of specified titles and designations by health care practitioners not licensed as physicians or osteopathic physicians, as applicable, with an exception; specifying the manner in which health care practitioners may represent their specialty practice areas; specifying specialist titles and designations that physicians and osteopathic physicians, respectively, are prohibited from using unless they have received formal recognition by the appropriate recognizing agency for such specialty certifications, etc.

SB 172: Health Care Practitioner Specialty Titles and Designations

Referred to Health Policy and Rules

(3/25) Introduced

HB 1341: Health Care Practitioner Identification

Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
( 3/5) Now in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee

Nursing Education Bill

Nursing Education Programs; Revises application requirements for nursing education program approval; authorizes Board of Nursing to revoke program's approval; revises requirements for annual reports approved programs are required to submit to board; provides for revocation of program's approval, & discipline of its program director; revises remediation procedures; removes provision authorizing board to extend program's probationary status; authorizes agents of DOH to conduct onsite evaluations & inspections; authorizes department to collect evidence as part of such evaluations & inspections; removes provision authorizing approved nursing education programs to request extension to meet board's accreditation requirements.

CS/SB 526: Nursing Education Programs

) Health Policy

Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

Fiscal Policy

HB 919: Nursing Education Programs

(Passed) Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
(Added to the Agenda) Referred to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
• Referred to Health & Human Services Committee