HB 746

EDUCATION AND HEALTH

1. After line 178, substitute

insert

2. That the Board of Medicine shall adopt regulations implementing the provisions of this act and establishing processes for granting authorization to physician assistants to practice without a practice agreement within the physician assistant's current scope of practice in accordance with § 54.1-2952.01 of the Code of Virginia, as created by this act. Such initial adoption of regulations by the Board of Medicine shall be exempt from the provisions of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq. of the Code of Virginia).

3. That the provisions of the first enactment of this act shall not become effective until the Board of Medicine adopts regulations in accordance with the second enactment of this act. The Board of Medicine shall certify in writing to the Virginia Code Commission the date on which it meets such requirement.