ESHB 1073 — Concerning medical assistants.

What this bill does

Extends the expiration of a medical assistant-certified interim permit to the issuance of a medical assistant-certified certification. Allows a medical assistant-certified who has completed medical assistant-phlebotomist training and applied for the medical assistant-phlebotomist credential to work as a medical assistant-phlebotomist under supervision while the application is being processed. Allows a medical assistant-certified to administer intravenous injections for diagnostic or therapeutic agents under the supervision of a health care practitioner if certain minimum standards are met.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 15, 2023
  98 yea · 0 nay
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 6, 2023
  47 yea · 0 nay · 2 not voting

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