Bill 2044

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               2044
Ratification Number:       504
Act Number                 406
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Relating to restrictions on the practice
                           of medicine, surgery or osteopathy

(A406, R504, H2044)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 40-47-60, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, SURGERY OR OSTEOPATHY, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE RESTRICTIONS SHALL NOT APPLY TO CERTAIN FUNCTIONS OR TASKS DELEGATED TO UNLICENSED MEDICAL PERSONNEL EMPLOYED BY LICENSED PHYSICIANS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Restrictions

Section 1. Section 40-47-60 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"(5) To prohibit a licensed physician form delegating tasks to unlicensed personnel in his employ and on his premises if:

a. the task is to a routine nature involving neither the special skill of a licensed person not significant risk to the patient if improperly done;

b. the task is performed while the physician is present on the premises and in such close proximity as to be readily available to the unlicensed person if needed;

c. the task does not involve the verbal transmission of the physician's order or prescription to a licensed person if the licensed person requires the order or prescription to be in writing;

d. the unlicensed person wears an appropriate badge denoting to any patient his status."

Time effective

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon the approval by the Governor.