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Committee approves bill tightening out-of-state license review for nurses and adding school emergency medications
Summary
House Bill 688 received committee approval after sponsors said it would give the Kentucky Board of Nursing discretion to scrutinize out-of-state credentials amid fraud concerns and add authority for schools to administer additional emergency medications.
House Bill 688 was reported favorably by the Committee on Health Services after sponsors described two separate changes: restoring discretion to license reviewers for nurses credentialed out of state and expanding the list of rescue medications schools may administer.
"House Bill 688 does basically two things," Representative Steve Bratcher said in his presentation. "One, it addresses issues of potential fraud of people becoming nurses in other states and us adopting their…
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