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Committee approves House Bill 129 to license internationally trained physicians, 7–0
Summary
The Joint & Standing committee voted 7–0 to send House Bill 129, the Expanding Physician Access Act, forward with an appropriation to build licensing and renewal functions; sponsor said fees from new licenses would fund the program and emphasized the measure is likely to add only a small number of physicians to the state workforce.
The Joint & Standing committee voted unanimously to advance House Bill 129, the Expanding Physician Access Act, recommending it “do pass” with an appropriation to support licensing and screening of internationally trained physicians.
Representative Wasserburger, the bill sponsor, told the committee the bill creates a process to license physicians trained abroad, adds “a little bit more guardrails” compared with a prior version and includes background checks. “If we were able to add 5 physicians to our state, I think that’d be a much bigger difference,” Wasserburger said, describing the proposal as a targeted step to address…
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