SB2198 Summary

• Amends North Dakota Century Code sections governing the North Dakota medical imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners, including definitions, licensing requirements, and disciplinary actions.

• Removes the December 31, 2015 deadline for licensure requirements and expands the board to nine members including five medical imaging or radiation therapy professionals, one radiologist, one medical physicist, one rural physician, and one public member.

• Establishes modality-specific licensure requirements for primary modalities including nuclear medicine technologist, radiation therapist, radiographer, radiologist assistant, sonographer, and magnetic resonance imaging technologist, requiring approved course completion, certification examination passage, and continuing education.

• Authorizes the board to grant conditional, restricted, or individualized licenses for applicants who practiced a modality for three or more of the five years before January 1, 2017, or who began practice after December 31, 2016, with board-approved examinations and continuing education requirements.

• Designates protected health information in board possession as exempt records and declares the act an emergency measure.