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Panel backs bill allowing nurses to delegate certain tasks to certified medical assistants
Summary
House Bill 327 would clarify that nurses, including advanced practice registered nurses, may delegate non‑clinical tasks to certified medical assistants; the Senate Health and Welfare Committee recommended the bill be sent to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after proponents said it aligns supervision with current clinic practice.
Representative Healy told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that House Bill 327 would put into statute that a nurse may oversee and delegate certain nonclinical tasks to a medical assistant in a provider office. “What this bill does is simply puts it into code that a nurse can oversee a medical assistant in this setting,” Representative Healy said.
He described medical assistants as distinct from certified nursing assistants and licensed nurses, and said the bill responds to changing clinical staffing models in which advanced practice registered…
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