House Study Bill 590 - Introduced HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES RESOLUTION BY CHAIRPERSON MILLER) HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION A Joint Resolution nullifying a rule relating to physicians’ 1 supervision of physician assistants and including effective 2 date provisions. 3 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5976YC (3) 86 tr/rj

H.J.R. _____ Section 1. The amendment to 645 Iowa administrative code, 1 rule 327.4, subrule 2, as appearing in ARC 1909C, as published 2 in the Iowa administrative bulletin, volume XXXVII, number 19, 3 dated March 18, 2015, p. 1684, is nullified. 4 Sec. 2. This joint resolution, being deemed of immediate 5 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 6 EXPLANATION 7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 8 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 9 This joint resolution nullifies an amendment to an 10 administrative rule adopted by the board of physician 11 assistants removing a requirement that a physician supervising 12 a physician assistant who is practicing in a remote medical 13 site physically visit and practice at the remote medical site 14 at least every two weeks. A session delay was imposed on 15 this rulemaking by the administrative rules review committee 16 in April 2015. By nullifying the amendment to the rule, 17 physicians will continue to generally be required to visit 18 remote medical sites every two weeks. 19 This joint resolution takes effect upon enactment. 20 -1- LSB 5976YC (3) 86 tr/rj 1/ 1