06 LC 33
1433S
The
Senate Health and Human Services Committee offered the following substitute to
SB 607:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to physicians, so as to prohibit certain activities in
certain business establishments; to provide for related matters; to repeal
conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to physicians, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as
follows:
"43-34-26.3.
No
advanced practice registered nurse or
physiciańs
assistant shall exercise authority delegated pursuant to Code Section 43-34-26.1
while located within a general merchandising establishment or business
establishment, a portion of which is licensed as a pharmacy pursuant to Article
6 of Chapter 4 of Title 26. This Code section shall not apply to the office of
a physician licensed pursuant to this chapter, a hospital licensed pursuant to
Title 31, or a heath maintenance organization that has an exclusive contract
with a medical group practice to provide or arrange for the provision of
substantially all physician services to enrollees in health benefits plans of
the health maintenance
organization."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.