South Carolina Senate Bill 44: Physician assistants

South Carolina · 2025-2026 Regular Session

What it does

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 40-47-937 So As To Provide Physician Assistants Who Meet Certain Postgraduate Clinical Experience And Practice Experience May Practice Pursuant Only To An Attestation Statement, And To Provide For The Functions, Locations, And Collaboration Requirements Allowed Under These Practice Arrangements; By Adding Section 40-47-939 So As To Provide That Certain Physician Assistants Licensed In Other Jurisdictions May Provide Emergency Care In This State Under Certain Circumstances, And To Limit Their Liability For Providing Such Care; By Amending Section 40-47-10, Relating To The State Board Of Medical Examiners, So As To Revise The Composition Of The Board To Include Two Physician Assistants, To Provide For Their Manner Of Appointment And The Filling Of Vacancies, And To Limit Their Terms Of Service; By Amending Section 40-47-20, Relating To Definitions Concerning The Medical Practice Act, So As To Revise Various Definitions; By Amending Section 40-47-113, Relating To Requirements Concerning Physician-patient Relationships And The Prescribing Of Drugs, So As To Make Conforming Changes; By Amending Section 40-47-195, Relating To…

Latest action

Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs (2025-01-14)

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