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Code · South Carolina · Title 40 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS · CHAPTER 33 · Nurses

§ 40-33-10. 2020 Act No.

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§ 40-33-10. 2020 Act No. 139, SECTION 1, provides as follows:
"SECTION 1. This act must be known and may be cited as the 'Armed Services Members and Spouses Professional and Occupational Licensing Act'."
2022 Act No. 171, SECTION 1.B, provides as follows:
"[SECTION 1.]B. CMAs include medical assistants who are currently employed in that capacity as of the effective date of this act who do not have the certification required by this SECTION but who achieve such certification no later than two years after the effective date of this act."
Effect of Amendment
2018 Act No. 234, SECTION 1, in (3), in the undesignated paragraph following (f), deleted "delegated" following "constitute" and "and must be promulgated by the Board of Nursing in regulation" following "Board of Medical Examiners"; rewrote (5), relating to the definition of "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse"; in (6), substituted "medical acts that nurses perform and that must be defined in a practice agreement pursuant to item (45)" for "delegated medical acts which nurses perform and which are promulgated by the Board of Nursing in regulation"; deleted (10), which related to the definition of "Approved written protocols", and redesignated
(11)to
(22)as
(10)to (21); rewrote (18), relating to the definition of "Certified Nurse-Midwife"; in (20), in the fourth sentence, deleted "delegated" following "who performs" and substituted "pursuant to a practice agreement as defined in item (45)" for "within approved written protocols", and in the fifth sentence, substituted "pursuant to a practice agreement" for "within approved written protocols"; deleted former (23), which related to the definition of "Delegated medical acts", and redesignated
(24)to
(37)as
(22)to (35); in (27), in the second sentence, substituted "GRNM" for "GRNA"; inserted (36), relating to the definition of "Medical staff", and redesignated
(38)to
(45)as
(37)to (44); in (37), inserted the
(a)and
(b)designators; in (40), in the first sentence, inserted "or doctoral level" following "master's level", and in the second sentence, substituted "medical acts must do so pursuant to a practice agreement as defined in item (45)" for "delegated medical acts must have a supervising physician or dentist who is readily available for consultation and shall operate within the approved written protocols"; in (44), inserted "who possesses an active, unrestricted, permanent license to practice medicine in this State and who actively is practicing within the geographic boundaries of this State" at the end; inserted (45), relating to the definition of "Practice agreement"; rewrote (52), relating to the definition of "Readily available"; inserted (61), relating to the definition of "Underserved or rural area", and (62), relating to the definition of "Underserved population", and redesignated
(61)to
(64)as
(63)to (66); and made nonsubstantive changes.
2020 Act No. 139, SECTION 5, in (19)(a), inserted "a minimum of" following "CRNA education program at".
2022 Act No. 171, SECTION 1.A, added (67).
2022 Act No. 171, SECTION 2, in (63), in the first sentence, inserted ", or persons who are not certified medical assistants as defined in Section 40-33-20(67),", in the second sentence, substituted "a physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse" for "an advance practice registered nurse", and added the third sentence.
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