House Study Bill 167



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            HUMAN RESOURCES BILL
                                            BY CHAIRPERSON UPMEYER)


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act to eliminate certain restrictions on the authority of a
  2    physician assistant to prescribe certain schedule II
  3    controlled substances.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 2441YC 81
  6 jr/cf/24

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 147.107, subsection 5, Code 2005, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    5.  Notwithstanding subsection 1 and any other provision of
  1  4 this section to the contrary, a physician may delegate the
  1  5 function of prescribing drugs, controlled substances, and
  1  6 medical devices to a physician assistant licensed pursuant to
  1  7 chapter 148C.  When delegated prescribing occurs, the
  1  8 supervising physician's name shall be used, recorded, or
  1  9 otherwise indicated in connection with each individual
  1 10 prescription so that the individual who dispenses or
  1 11 administers the prescription knows under whose delegated
  1 12 authority the physician assistant is prescribing.  Rules
  1 13 relating to the authority of physician assistants to prescribe
  1 14 drugs, controlled substances, and medical devices pursuant to
  1 15 this subsection shall be adopted by the board of physician
  1 16 assistant examiners, after consultation with the board of
  1 17 medical examiners and the board of pharmacy examiners.
  1 18 However, the rules shall prohibit the prescribing of schedule
  1 19 II controlled substances which are listed as stimulants or
  1 20 depressants pursuant to chapter 124.
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22    A physician may delegate the function of prescribing drugs
  1 23 and controlled substances to a physician assistant, subject to
  1 24 rules adopted by the physician assistant examiners board.
  1 25 Current law requires that the board rules prohibit the
  1 26 prescribing of schedule II controlled substances which are
  1 27 listed as stimulants or depressants pursuant to Code chapter
  1 28 124.
  1 29    This bill strikes that rule requirement.  The effect of the
  1 30 bill is give the physician assistant examiners board the
  1 31 discretion to eliminate the restriction regarding the
  1 32 prescribing of such schedule II controlled substances by
  1 33 physician assistants in its rules.
  1 34 LSB 2441YC 81
  1 35 jr:nh/cf/24