LA HB1143

Changes the professional title from "physician assistant" to "physician associate" throughout Louisiana law, while retaining the reference to "physician assistant" when describing the National Commission on the Certification of Physicians' Assistants

Renames the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners Physician Assistants Advisory Committee to the Physician Associates Advisory Committee

Makes technical updates to terminology, changing "health care" to "healthcare" and updating phrasing such as "shall have the authority to" to "may"

Directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to change all references in the Louisiana Revised Statutes from "physician assistant" to "physician associate"

Does not make substantive changes to the scope of practice, licensure requirements, supervision requirements, or other regulatory provisions governing physician associates