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CA AB608
Bill
Status
1/16/2018
Primary Sponsor
Jacqui Irwin
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AI Summary
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Authorizes medical assistants to draw up local anesthetic (such as lidocaine) in a syringe as a technical supportive service, provided specified conditions are met.
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Requires a supervising licensed physician, podiatrist, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or certified nurse-midwife to physically observe the medical assistant drawing up the anesthetic.
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Requires the supervising practitioner to verify that each syringe label is accurate and that the anesthetic is either reconstituted by a licensed person or comes pre-reconstituted from the manufacturer.
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Clarifies that medical assistants remain prohibited from administering local anesthetic agents and from performing clinical laboratory tests without proper authorization.
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Takes effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Legislative Description
Medical assistants.
Last Action
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.
8/9/2018