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ENROLLED Regular Session HOUSE BILL NO.
HCAHB779 4465 1733 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS Regular Session Amendments proposed byHouse Committee on Health and Welfare to Original House Bill No.
779 BY REPRESENTATIVES FREEMAN AND CHASSION AN ACT ToamendandreenactR.S.40:1121.6(A),(B),and(C)(introductoryparagraph)andto enact R.S.
779 by Representative Freeman AMENDMENT NO.
40:1121.6(F) and (G), relative to expedited partner therapy;
1 On page 1, line 3, change "G," to "(G)," AMENDMENT NO.
to provide for eligible medical conditions for expedited partner therapy;
2 On page 1, line 4, after "liability;" and before "and" insert "to provide for the duties of the Louisiana Department of Health;" AMENDMENT NO.
to provide for liability;
3 On page 1, line 8, delete "is" and insert "and (G) are" AMENDMENT NO.
to provide for the duties of the Louisiana Department of Health;
4 On page 2, delete lines 7 through 10 in their entirety and insert the following:
and to provide for related matters.
"drugs to that patient's sexual partner or partners absent a doctor-patient relationship or absent an advanced practice registered nurse-patient relationship and without examination or nurse clinical assessment or physician assistant examination of that patient's" AMENDMENT NO.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
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Section 1.
R.S.
40:1121.6(A), (B), and (C)(introductory paragraph) are hereby amendedandreenactedandR.S.40:1121.6(F)and(G)areherebyenactedtoreadasfollows:
§1121.6.
Expedited partner therapy A.
The purpose of this Section is to allow for the provision of medications or prescriptions by any physician licensed to practice medicine in this state or any advanced practice registered nurse who is licensed to practice nursing in this state, or any physician assistant, who is licensed to practice in this state, provided such physician or nurse or physician assistant has the authority to write prescriptions in this state, to individuals who may have been exposed to gonorrhea or chlamydia.
gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis, or other sexually associated infection, as determined by the Louisiana Department of Health.
Expedited partner therapy is herebyauthorizedabsentadoctor-patientrelationshipandabsentclinicalassessment.
B.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, any physician or any advanced practice registered nurse who diagnoses or does a nurse clinicalassessmentoranyphysicianassistantwhoperformsanexaminationofacase of chlamydia or gonorrhea gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis, or other sexually associated infection, as determined by the Louisiana Department of Health in an Page 1 of 2 CODING:
Wordsinstruckthroughtypearedeletionsfromexistinglaw;wordsunderscored are additions.
HB NO.
779 ENROLLED individualpatientmayprescribe,furnish,orotherwiseprovideprescriptionantibiotic drugs to that patient's sexual partner or partners absent a doctor-patient relationship or absent an advanced practice registered nurse-patient relationship and without examination or nurse clinical assessment or physician assistant examination of that patient's sexual partner or partners.
C.
If expedited partner therapy is chosen as an alternative, the patient with a case of chlamydia or gonorrhea gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis, or other sexuallyassociated infection, as determined bythe Louisiana Departmentof Health will be given a written document that he agrees to give to his sexual contact.
The document will contain, but will not be limited to, the following information:
* * * F.
A physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant who reasonably and in good faith renders expedited partner therapy in accordance withthisSectionandapharmacistwhoreasonablyandingoodfaithdispensesdrugs in accordancewith this Sectionshall not besubjectto civil orcriminalliabilityorbe deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct.
G.
The Louisiana Department of Health shall create a list of sexually associated infections that are eligible for expedited partner therapy.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA APPROVED:
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