S.B.
146
NURSING REGULATION - INTERSTATE COMPACT
Senate
Floor
Amendments
February 12, 1998 6:18 PM
Senator Craig A. Peterson proposes the following amendments:
1. Page 1, Line 8: Delete "AND" and after "DATE" insert "; AND PROVIDING A COORDINATION CLAUSE"
2. Page 10, Line 9: After line 9 insert:
"Section 7. Coordination clause.
If this bill and H.B. 351, Nurse Practice Act Amendments, both pass, it is the intent of the Legislature that, in preparing the database for publication, the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel shall:
1. Renumber S.B. 146 to Chapter 31c.
2. Insert the amendments in Section 58-31-6.5 in S.B. 146 into Section 58-31b-308 in H.B. 351 and renumber the subsections so that Section 58-31b-308 in H.B. 351 reads as follows:
"58-31b-308. Exemptions from licensure.
(1) In addition to the exemptions from licensure in Section 58-1-307, the following persons may engage in acts included within the definition of the practice of nursing, subject to the stated circumstances and limitations, without being licensed under this chapter:
(a) friends, family members, foster parents, or legal guardians of a patient performing gratuitous nursing care for the patient;
(b) persons providing care in a medical emergency;
(c) persons engaged in the practice of religious tenets of a church or religious denomination; and
(d) after July 1, 2000, a person licensed to practice nursing by a jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact to the extent permitted by Section 58-31c-102.
(2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(d), the division may, in
accordance with Section 58-31c-102, limit or revoke practice
privileges in this state of a person licensed to practice nursing by a
jurisdiction that has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact."
3. Change the reference in Section 58-31b-103 in S.B. 146 from
"Section 58-31-3" to "Section 58-31b-201."
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