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Committee approves PA licensure rules after rejecting effort to remove exam reference; NCCPA language struck
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved the physician assistant (PA) licensure rule docket after debate about listing the certifying body. A motion to remove the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) reference passed, while a substitute motion to retain the exam wording failed on roll call.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved pending rule docket 24-3302-2401 for physician assistant licensure, and during the process the panel voted to remove the specific rule language that named the certifying organization in rule.
Nikki Chopsky, bureau chief for health professions and executive officer for the Idaho State Board of Medicine, told the committee the PA advisory committee and the Board of Medicine had proposed moving duplicative definitions into statute and updating licensure, scope and fee language. "On page 4 93, rule 10.01 definitions, the board struck its only definition, which is that for…
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