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Committee debates physician assistant delegation rules; compact to ease multistate licensure advances
Summary
Representatives and physician assistants pressed for statutory changes to let physician assistants delegate certain clinical tasks to trained, unlicensed staff and to join a multistate licensure compact. The committee voted down the delegation bill (SB99) but approved the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact (SB101).
Representative Zach Gramlich, sponsor: "This bill allows for PAs to delegate duties to unlicensed medical staff, such as medical assistants, emergency technicians, and paramedics." (Representative Zach Gramlich, presenting SB99)
The House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee considered two bills presented by Representative Zach Gramlich (District 50) and supporting testimony from Aaron Woodall, a family practice physician assistant representing the Arkansas Academy of Physician Assistants. SB 99 would add physician assistants to statutory language that currently authorizes physicians to delegate clinical tasks to unlicensed medical staff. SB 101 would enact the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact to streamline multistate licensure for PAs.
Why it matters: Supporters said SB 99 would let physician assistants delegate routine patient tasks (for example, supervised injections and in‑clinic medication administration) to trained unlicensed personnel without having to obtain a physician's…
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