00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 480(HES)                                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to physician assistants."                                                                              
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 08.64.107 is amended to read:                                                                       
04  Sec. 08.64.107.  REGULATION OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS AND                                                               
05 INTENSIVE CARE PARAMEDICS.  The board shall adopt regulations regarding the                                            
06 licensure [REGISTRATION] of physician assistants and registration of mobile                                          
07 intensive care paramedics, and the medical services that they may perform, including                                   
08 the                                                                                                                    
09   (1)  [THE] educational and other qualifications; [,]                                                               
10   (2)  [THE] application and registration procedures; [,]                                                            
11   (3)  [THE] scope of activities authorized; [,] and                                                                 
12   (4)  [THE] responsibilities of the supervising or training physician.                                                
13    * Sec. 2.  AS 18.08.089(a) is amended to read:                                                                       
14  (a)  A mobile intensive care paramedic or physician assistant registered or                                          

01 licensed under AS 08.64.107 or an emergency medical technician certified under this                                    
02 chapter may make a determination and pronouncement of death of a person under the                                       
03 following circumstances:                                                                                                
04   (1)  the paramedic or emergency medical technician is an active member                                               
05 of an emergency medical service certified under this chapter;                                                           
06   (2)  neither a physician licensed under AS 08.64 nor a physician exempt                                              
07 from licensure under AS 08.64 is immediately available for consultation by radio or                                     
08 telephone communications;                                                                                               
09   (3)  the paramedic, physician assistant, or emergency medical technician                                             
10 has determined, based on acceptable medical standards, that the person has sustained                                    
11 irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions.                                                        
12    * Sec. 3.  AS 18.15.310(a) is amended to read:                                                                       
13  (a)  The withdrawal of blood for a test under AS 18.15.300 - 18.15.320 shall                                          
14 be performed in a medically approved manner.  Only a physician or physician                                            
15 assistant licensed under AS 08.64, [PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT REGISTERED                                                   
16 UNDER AS 08.64,] registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or certified emergency                                     
17 medical technician may withdraw blood specimens for the purposes of AS 18.15.300 -                                      
18 18.15.320.