HB 64

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1 Bill Summary
2 Bill Actions
3 Bill Calendar
4 Bill Text
5 Bill Votes
6 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors

April Weaver

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Nursing, Board of, investigators granted power of peace officers, Act 2017-46, 2017 Reg. Sess.; Sec. 34-21-2 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the State Board of Nursing employs investigators who investigate alleged violations of the Nurse Practice Act. The investigators do not have the power of law enforcement officers and are not required to meet the minimum standards for law enforcement officers

This bill would grant investigators of the Board of Nursing who meet the minimum standards of the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission authority to exercise the powers of law enforcement officers, except the power to make arrests, in investigating alleged violations perpetrated by licensees of the Nurse Practice Act

Relating to the Board of Nursing; to amend Act 2017-46, 2017 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 34-21-2, Code of Alabama 1975; to grant investigators of the board who meet the minimum standards of the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission authority to exercise the powers of law enforcement officers, except the power to make arrests, in investigating alleged violations perpetrated by licensees of the Nurse Practice Act.

Subjects

Nursing, Board of

Bill Actions

Action Date	Chamber	Action
March 20, 2018	S	Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Health and Human Services
March 15, 2018	H	Engrossed
March 15, 2018	H	Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 852
March 15, 2018	H	Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 851
March 15, 2018	H	Health Amendment Offered
March 15, 2018	H	Third Reading Passed
January 25, 2018	H	Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
January 9, 2018	H	Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health