Bill H.2178

HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3308        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2178

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

James E. Vallee

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
              Court assembled:

              The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act Relative to Ionizing Radiation.

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PETITION OF:

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act pertaining to physicians delegating to physician assistants procedures using ionizing radiation .

              Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

              Chapter 112 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word “facilities” in section 9E the following:-

“Physicians may delegate radiological procedures, including procedures using fluoroscopy, to a physician assistant who has completed a radiation safety course as prescribed by 105 CMR- 120.405.”

Chapter 111 of the General Laws i s hereby amended by inserting after the word “employed” in Section 5L the following:

(iii). A Physician Assistant registered under MGL Chapter 111, Section 9C, who has been delegated by a supervising physician the performance of radiological procedures in cluding fluoroscopy and has completed a radiation safety course as prescribed by 105 CMR - 120.405”