SF 1890 makes a number of modifications to the Board of Nursing and to the Health Professionals Services Program.  The bill also increases the compensation for board members for the health-related licensing boards.

Section 1 (148.261) authorizes the Board of Nursing to bring disciplinary action against a licensee who has been discharged from the Health Professionals Services Program or any other alternative monitoring or diversion program for reasons other than satisfactory completion of the program.

Section 2 (148.261) requires the Board of Nursing to deny a license or automatically revoke a license if the applicant or licensee has been convicted of a felony level criminal sexual conduct offense.

Section 3 (148.261) makes a technical change.

Section 4 (214.09) increases the compensation rate to $75 a day for members of health-related licensing boards when conducting board activities.  (Currently the rate is $55 a day.)

Section 5 (214.32) requires health-related licensing boards to temporarily suspend the license of any licensee who has been discharged from the health professionals services program based on allegations that the regulated person has engaged in conduct that might cause risk to the public.  The license is suspended until the completion of a disciplinary investigation.  The board is required to complete the investigation within 60 days of receiving the report of discharge from the health professionals services program, unless the licensee requests a delay in the proceedings in which case the license will be suspended until completion of the investigation.

Section 6 (214.330) requires the program manager of the Health Professional Services Program to report to the appropriate health licensing board violations that may be related to the licensee’s impairment, but that are also grounds for disciplinary action under the applicable practice act.  This includes diversion of controlled substances which is defined as any act or deviation that transfers a prescription drug from a lawful to an unlawful channel of distribution or use.  Licensees who are reported are not automatically rendered ineligible for the health professionals services program, but may continue to be monitored upon the consent of the appropriate board.

Section 7 (364.09) specifies that chapter 364 does not apply to any license that has been denied or revoked by the Board of Nursing due to a conviction of a felony-level criminal sexual conduct offense.

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