11RS House Bill 486

House Bill 486

Actions

Last Action	to Health & Welfare (H)
Title	AN ACT relating to the licensure of medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists and making an appropriation therefor.
Bill Documents	Bill
Bill Request Number	488
Sponsors	J. Stacy, J. Glenn, R. Palumbo
Summary of Original Version	Create KRS Chapter 311B, a new chapter relating to the licensure of medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists; establish legislative policy favoring regulation by a licensing board; define terms; create the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to license and regulate advanced practice professionals, medical imaging technologists, radiation therapists, and limited x-ray machine operators; set up board membership, meeting, and other procedural requirements; establish board powers and duties generally, including promulgating administrative regulations to administer and enforce the chapter, setting licensing requirements, and hiring an executive director and other board administrative staff; set minimum qualifications and powers of the executive director; require the board to recognize and enforce the standards of the national organizations for the medical imaging and radiation therapy professions; forbid practice of the regulated professions without a license from the board; exempt practitioners of the healing arts, students, and federal government employees from the chapter; list those professions requiring a license from the board; authorize the board to establish the qualifications for acquiring and maintaining licensure, with the power to identify other specialties or categories of duties consistent with KRS Chapter 311B; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations to set licensing fees; establish a trust and agency fund from licensing and other fees for use by the board; waive fees and set special procedures for licensees serving in the United States Armed Forces; allow claiming to be a licensee, employing an imaging or radiation professional, or manipulating ionizing radiation equipment or administering radiopharmaceuticals only if the person is licensed under the chapter; require licensees or employers of licensees to alert the board when a licensee has committed certain acts or has become unfit or incompetent to practice; list reasons the board may deny, revoke, or suspend a license; describe procedures for administrative hearings for licensee discipline; define conditions for instituting civil penalties; authorize the board to set reasonable fines through the promulgation of administrative regulations; repeal KRS 211.870, 211.890, and 211.993; set procedures for initial board appointments.
Index Headings of Original Version	Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Medical imaging and radiation therapy board, promulgation of administrative regulations by Fees - Medical imaging and radiation therapy board, licensing and related fees charged by Health and Medical Services - Medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists, licensing and regulation of Licensing - Medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists, licensing and regulation of Occupations and Professions - Medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists, licensing and regulation of Physicians and Practitioners - Medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists, licensing and regulation of State Agencies - Medical imaging and radiation therapy board, creation of and professional licensing by

02/14/11	introduced in House
02/15/11	to Health & Welfare (H)