Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 10:12 a.m.
HB 334 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0626
10/06
HOUSE BILL 334
AN ACT relative to an exemption from licensure by the board of medical imaging and radiation therapy.
SPONSORS: Rep. Scully, Hills. 33; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. Wuelper, Straf. 3; Rep. Murotake, Hills. 32; Rep. King, Hills. 33; Sen. Avard, Dist 12
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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This bill exempts from licensure by the board of medical imaging and radiation therapy persons who perform sonography in certain circumstances.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0626
10/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to an exemption from licensure by the board of medical imaging and radiation therapy.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy; Definition; Sonographer. Amend RSA 328-J:1, XV to read as follows:
XV. "Sonographer'' means a person who is licensed under this chapter to perform a comprehensive set of diagnostic sonography procedures using ultrasound to create medical images. The term sonographer shall not include persons licensed under RSA 326-B and RSA 326-D who perform sonography only on a focused imaging target to assess specific and limited information about a patient's medical condition or to provide real-time visual guidance for another procedure, and such persons shall be exempt from licensure by the board.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.