Bill Summary
SB 172 Health Care Practitioner Specialty Titles and Designations (2025 Session)
Health Care Practitioner Specialty Titles and Designations; Providing circumstances under which the Department of Health may issue a notice to cease and desist and pursue other remedies upon finding probable cause; prohibiting the use of specified titles and designations by health care practitioners not licensed as physicians or osteopathic physicians, as applicable, with an exception; providing that the use of such titles and designations constitutes the unlicensed practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine, as applicable; authorizing the department to pursue specified remedies for such violations; specifying specialist titles and designations that physicians and osteopathic physicians, respectively, are prohibited from using unless they have received formal recognition by the appropriate recognizing agency for such specialty certifications, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025
02/24/25
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Filed
02/25/25
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Referred to Health Policy; Rules
03/20/25
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On Committee agenda - Health Policy, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 412 K
03/25/25
SENATE
Favorable with CS by Health Policy; 7 Yeas, 3 Nays
03/26/25
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Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
03/26/25
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Now in Rules
03/27/25
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On Committee agenda - Rules, 04/01/25, 9:00 am, 412 K
04/01/25
SENATE
Favorable with CS by Rules; 22 Yeas, 1 Nay
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April 1, 2025 - Room 412 K
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