Advocacy

Today, Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire signed HB 1222 into law. The legislation eliminates the requirement that PAs have collaboration agreements with physicians, except for PAs who have completed fewer than 8,000 hours of clinical practice and work in a healthcare setting that does not employ a physician.

The Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act (H.R. 618) has cleared the House Committee on Education & the Workforce, with language authorizing PAs to provide treatment and oversee care for federal workers injured on the job.  

Maine has officially adopted the PA Licensure Compact model legislation, L.D. 2043, bringing the total of states in the PA Licensure Compact to nine.

With the recent signing of H.B. 3781/S.B. 1654, Oklahoma is officially the eighth state to enact the PA Licensure Compact model legislation and the first since the compact was activated following the seventh state’s passage.