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Committee advances bill to create voluntary treatment program for nurses
Summary
Representative Stevens presented House Bill 219 to create a voluntary, participant-funded treatment-and-monitoring program for nurses modeled on existing programs for other professions; Senator Dolezal moved to advance the bill and the committee passed it by voice vote.
Representative Stevens asked the Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee on Monday to advance House Bill 219, an alternative-to-discipline program that would allow nurses who face substance-use, mental-health or physical-health issues to enter confidential treatment and monitoring instead of formal disciplinary action. "We have this particular program for pharmacists, dentists and physicians," Stevens said, describing the…
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