SF2087 Summary

• Health care licensing and practice: Modifies licensure requirements for chiropractors, athletic trainers, occupational therapists, licensed professional clinical counselors, and podiatrists; authorizes pharmacists to administer vaccines under written protocol; allows complementary and alternative health care practices by licensed practitioners.

• Home care and continuing care services: Changes terminology from "private duty nursing" to "home care nursing"; modifies definitions and requirements for complex home care nursing; removes the relative-pay reduction for personal care assistants; updates provider enrollment and bond requirements.

• Local public health system: Restructures local public health governance by establishing "community health boards" to replace "boards of health"; clarifies duties, powers, and funding mechanisms; requires performance management and community health assessments.

• Child welfare and foster care: Requires home studies to assess prospective foster parents' ability to maintain smoke-free environments; updates child maltreatment screening guidelines; clarifies placement decisions based on best interests of the child.

• Electronic cigarettes and tobacco regulation: Regulates electronic delivery devices containing nicotine or lobelia; expands tobacco licensing to include e-cigarettes; prohibits tanning equipment use by minors under age 18; requires AED device registration.