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House panel debates naming PANCE exam in PA licensure rules; substitute motion fails 8–7
Summary
Members of the House Health and Welfare Committee debated whether to include the name of the national certifying exam for physician assistants (PANCE) in state rules. A substitute motion to keep the exam named in rule failed 8–7; the committee later accepted the PA docket with the disputed subsection excepted.
The Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee spent an extended portion of its Feb. 26 hearing debating whether to keep the national physician‑assistant certifying exam named in the state licensure rule. The committee recorded a roll call 8–7 against a substitute motion that would have left the PANCE (Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination) named in rule; the committee then approved the physician‑assistant docket with the subsection that named the exam excepted.
For the record, Nikki Chopsky, Bureau Chief for the Health Professions Bureau at the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses and Executive Officer for the State Board of Medicine, told the committee the PANCE is the exam used to test physician assistants for licensure and that statute requires an exam to be named in rule. “PANCE — that is the exam that we use,” Chopsky said, adding that licensing and…
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