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Committee clears House Bill 89 to clarify nursesscope for delegated assessments
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 89 to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation. The bill replaces ambiguous "contributing to" language with "performing appropriate delegated focused assessments" to clarify when registered nurses may delegate assessment tasks to licensed practical nurses.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Feb. 25 voted to send House Bill 89 to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation after a brief discussion about language clarifying nursing scope of practice.
Representative Healy, who introduced the bill, said the measure is a narrow technical fix intended to remove ambiguous wording from statute and align the code with existing administrative rules. "This may be the simplest you do see this year," Healy said, explaining the change replaces the phrase "contributing to" an assessment with language allowing…
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