SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL 20

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

AN ACT

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES; CHANGING THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS; AMENDING THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS' ASSISTANTS ACT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. Section 61-10A-7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1979, Chapter 26, Section 7) is amended to read:

     "61-10A-7. RESPONSIBILITY.--Every osteopathic physician using, supervising or employing a registered osteopathic physician's assistant shall be individually responsible and liable for the performance of the acts and omissions delegated to the osteopathic physician's assistant. Nothing [herein] in the Osteopathic Physicians' Assistants Act shall be construed to relieve the osteopathic physician's assistant of [any] responsibility and liability for any of [his] the osteopathic physician's assistant's own acts and omissions. [No osteopathic physician may have under his supervision more than two currently registered osteopathic physicians' assistants, except where an osteopathic physician is working in a health facility providing health service to the public primarily on a free or reduced fee basis, which is funded in whole or in part out of public funds or the funds of private charitable institutions; the board may authorize a greater number upon a finding that the program provides adequate supervision of the osteopathic physicians' assistants.] An osteopathic physician's assistant shall be supervised by an osteopathic physician as approved by the board."

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