HB 2292 — physician assistants; licensure; board.

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        State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session     HBHOUSE BILL 2292   Introduced  by  RepresentativesAN Osborne:ACT   Amending sections 32-2503 and 32-2558, Arizona Revised Statutes;

Chaplik, Cobb, Shah, Wilmeth     AN ACT   Amending sections 32‑2503 and 32‑2558, Arizona Revised Statutes;

Section 1.  SectionSection 1. 32-2503, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-2503.  Organization;Section 32-2503, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

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payment for service A.  TheA. board shall annually elect a chairperson and vice‑chairperson vice chairperson from among its members.

B.  The board shall hold a regular meeting at least quarterly on a date and at a time and place it designates.  The board shall holdannually specialelect meetings, including meetings using communications equipment that allows all members participating in the meeting to hear each other, as the chairperson determines are necessary to carry out the functions of the board.  The board shall hold a special meeting on any day that the chairperson determinesand isvice-chairperson necessary to carry out the functions of the board.  The vice‑chairperson vice chairperson mayfrom callamong regularits meetingsmembers. and special meetings if the chairperson is not available.

C.  MembersB. of the board are eligible to receive compensation in the amount of two hundred dollars up to $200 for each day of actual service in the business of the board and for all expenses necessarily and properly incurred in attending board meetings.

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1.  ThatC. the applicant has not engaged in any conduct during the revocation or surrender period that would have constituted a basis for revocation or surrender pursuant to section 32‑2551.

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3.  ThatEND_STATUTE theSec. 2. applicant has made restitution to any aggrieved person as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

4.  ThatSection the32-2558, applicantArizona demonstratesRevised anyStatutes, otheris standardamended ofto rehabilitationread: the board determines is appropriate.

B.  ExceptSTART_STATUTE32-2558. as provided in subsection C of this section, a person shall not submit an application for reinstatement less than two years after the date of revocation or surrender.

C.  TheReinstatement boardof shallrevoked vacate its previous order to revoke or acceptsurrendered the surrender of a license ifA. that revocation or surrender was based on a conviction of a felony or an offense involving moral turpitude and that conviction has been reversed on appeal.  The physician assistant may submit an application for reinstatement as soon as the court enters the reversal.

D.  AnOn written application, the board may issue a new license to a physician assistant whose license was previously revoked by the board or surrendered if the applicant fordemonstrates reinstatementto shallthe complyboard's satisfaction that the applicant is completely rehabilitated with allrespect initialto licensingthe requirementsconduct prescribedthat bywas thisthe chapter.basis for the revocation or surrender.  In making its decision, the board shall determine:

1.

That the applicant has not engaged in any conduct during the revocation or surrender period that would have constituted a basis for revocation or surrender pursuant to section 32-2551.

2.

If a criminal conviction was a basis of the revocation or surrender, that the applicant's civil rights have been fully restored pursuant to statute or any other applicable recognized judicial or gubernatorial order.

3.

That the applicant has made restitution to any aggrieved person as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

4.

That the applicant demonstrates any other standard of rehabilitation the board determines is appropriate.

B.

Except as provided in subsection C of this section, a person shall not submit an application for reinstatement less than two years after the date of revocation or surrender.

C.

The board shall vacate its previous order to revoke or accept the surrender of a license if that revocation or surrender was based on a conviction of a felony or an offense involving moral turpitude and that conviction has been reversed on appeal.

The physician assistant may submit an application for reinstatement as soon as the court enters the reversal.

D.

An applicant for reinstatement shall comply with all initial licensing requirements prescribed by this chapter.