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SB 281                                                                                                                        
SENATE BILL NO. 281 BY THE SENATE HEALTH AND SOCIAL                                                                             
SERVICES COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
          "An Act relating to the rural health transformation                                                                   
          program; relating to physician assistants; relating to                                                                
          collaborative agreements between physicians and                                                                       
          physician assistants; relating to the interstate medical                                                              
          licensure compact; relating to the PA licensure                                                                       
          compact; relating to the practice of medicine; relating                                                               
          to the psychology interjurisdictional compact;                                                                        
          relating to health care providers; relating to the                                                                    
          recognition of EMS personnel licensure interstate                                                                     

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          compact; relating to provisions regarding physician                                                                   
          assistants in contracts between certain health care                                                                   
          providers and health care insurers; and establishing                                                                  
          the Rural Health Transformation Program Advisory                                                                      
          Council."                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the Health and Social Services                                                          
and Labor and Commerce Committees.