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PA HB739
Bill
Status
2/26/2025
Primary Sponsor
Nancy Guenst
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AI Summary
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Creates a new "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse-Certified Nurse Practitioner" (APRN-CNP) license to replace the current "Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner" certification, allowing APRN-CNPs to practice as licensed independent practitioners within their population focus area
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Grants full practice authority to APRN-CNPs after completing 3 years and 3,600 hours of collaborative practice with a physician, eliminating the ongoing physician collaboration requirement for experienced practitioners
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Expands APRN-CNP prescriptive authority to include all proprietary and nonproprietary drugs and controlled substances, and eliminates the Drug Review Committee that previously approved drug categories
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Authorizes APRN-CNPs to order methadone treatment, form professional corporations with other health care practitioners, and be recognized as primary care providers under managed care plans
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Requires APRN-CNPs practicing without collaboration to maintain professional liability insurance in their own name, and mandates 30 hours of continuing education biennially (including 16 hours in pharmacology for those with prescriptive authority)
Legislative Description
Further providing for title, for definitions, for State Board of Nursing, for dietitian-nutritionist l icense required, for unauthorized practices and acts not prohibited, for temporary practice permit, for graduates of schools of other states, territories or Dominion of Canada, for persons entitled to practice, for certified registered nurse practitioners and qualifications, for scope of practice for certified registered nurse practitioners, for prescriptive authority for certified registered nurse practitioners, for Drug Review Committee, for professional liability, for reporting of multiple licensure, for continuing nursing education, for punishment for violations, for refusal, suspension or revocation of licenses, for reinstatement of license and for injunction or other process; and providing for the expiration of the State Board of Nursing's power to license certified registered nurse practitioners.
Last Action
Referred to Professional Licensure
2/26/2025