Bill Text: HI HB2233 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health Care Professionals; Email; Licensure; Infectious Diseases; Reporting
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-06-23 - Act 115, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1216). [HB2233 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB2233-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 453-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§453-6 Fees; expenses. (a) No applicant shall be examined under this chapter until the applicant has paid to the board application, examination, and license fees. The board may provide separate fees for licensure by endorsement and for limited and temporary licenses.
(b) Every physician or surgeon holding a license under this chapter shall renew the license with the board no later than January 31 of each even-numbered year. Every osteopathic physician or surgeon holding a license previously issued under chapter 460 and this chapter shall renew the license with the board no later than June 30 of each even-numbered year.
(c) Every physician, osteopathic physician, or surgeon shall pay a renewal fee and comply with the category 1 or 1A continuing medical education requirements provided in rules adopted by the board.
(d) Every physician, osteopathic physician, or surgeon who actively practices in the State shall:
(1) Complete a continuing medical education course that focuses on health issues with significant health impact to the State, which may include reportable infectious diseases such as dengue fever, zika virus, chikungunya virus, leptospirosis, or rat lungworm disease; and
(2) Meet the Hawaii-specific requirement under this subsection by obtaining credit hours in a continuing medical education course as provided in the board's rules.
[(c)] (e) A physician,
osteopathic physician, or surgeon shall meet the category 1 or 1A continuing
medical education requirements by obtaining credit hours in a category 1 or 1A
continuing medical education program accredited by the American Medical
Association or the American Osteopathic Association or in other approved
category 1 or 1A continuing medical education as provided in the board's rules.
(f) To determine compliance[,] with
the provisions of this section, the board may conduct a random audit. A
physician, osteopathic physician, or surgeon selected for audit shall be
notified by the board. Within sixty days of notification, the physician,
osteopathic physician, or surgeon shall provide to the board documentation to
verify compliance with the category 1 or 1A continuing medical education
requirements.
[(d)] (g) Failure to renew, pay
the renewal fee, and, in the case of audited physicians, osteopathic
physicians, or surgeons, provide documentation of compliance shall constitute a
forfeiture of license, which may be restored only upon the submission of
written application therefor, payment to the board of a restoration fee, and,
in the case of audited physicians, osteopathic physicians, and surgeons,
documentation of compliance.
[(e)] (h) A license that has
been forfeited for one renewal term shall be automatically terminated and
cannot be restored, and a new application for licensure shall be required."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2070; provided that the Hawaii
medical board shall implement the continuing medical education course provisions
under this Act no later than January 1, 2018.
Report Title:
Health Care Professionals; Continuing Medical Education
Description:
Requires every physician, osteopathic physician, or surgeon to: (1) complete a continuing medical education course that focuses on health issues with significant public health impact to the State; and (2) meet the Hawaii-specific requirement by obtaining credit hours in a continuing medication education course as provided in rules of the Hawaii Medical Board. (HB2233 HD1)
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