PRINTER'S NO. 877
No. 759 Session of 1973
INTRODUCED BY PIPER, WELLS, RIEGER, DORR, BENNETT, FEE,
A. P. KELLY, TOLL, FAWCETT, POLITE, KLINGAMAN, MALADY,
ZIMMERMAN, D. S. HAYES, ROWE, GRING, GEISLER AND CRAWFORD,
APRIL 9, 1973
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, APRIL 9, 1973
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for
21 number and qualifications for membership on the State Board
22 of Medical Education and Licensure.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 412, act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
26 No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," amended
27 September 1, 1961 (P.L.1149, No.514), is amended to read:
1 Section 412. State Board of Medical Education and
2 Licensure.--The State Board of Medical Education and Licensure
3 shall consist of [seven] nine members, two of whom shall be the
4 [Superintendent of Public Instruction] Commissioner of
5 Professional and Occupational Affairs in the Department of State
6 and the Secretary of Health, the [five] seven remaining members
7 shall be appointed [from the membership or those eligible for
8 membership in the Pennsylvania Medical Society. The Pennsylvania
9 Medical Society, after consultation with the deans of the
10 medical schools in Pennsylvania, shall submit a list of names
11 to] by the Governor [for his consideration in filling vacancies
12 on the Board.
13 Each of the five members appointed, shall, at the time of his
14 appointment, be licensed and qualified under the existing laws
15 of this Commonwealth to practice medicine and surgery, and shall
16 have practiced the same in this Commonwealth for a period of not
17 less than ten years prior to his appointment. No member of the
18 board shall be a member of the faculty of any undergraduate
19 school or college or university teaching medicine or surgery.]
20 as follows:
21 (i) Four members shall be physicians who are licensed to
22 practice medicine and surgery in the Commonwealth and shall be
23 chosen from among candidates whose names have been submitted to
24 the Governor by the Pennsylvania Medical Society;
25 (ii) One member shall be a physician licensed to practice
26 medicine and surgery in the Commonwealth who is a dean of one of
27 the medical colleges in Pennsylvania, and he shall be chosen
28 from among candidates whose names have been submitted to the
29 Governor by the deans of the medical colleges in Pennsylvania;
30 (iii) One member shall be a person who is knowledgeable in
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1 the field of allied health sciences; and
2 (iv) One member shall be a person representing the public at
3 large.
4 The terms of members of the board shall be four years from
5 the respective dates of their appointment.
6 [Four] Five members of the board shall constitute a quorum.
7 The board shall select, from among their number, a chairman,
8 and shall elect a secretary who need not be a member of the
9 board.
10 Each member of the board, other than the [Superintendent of
11 Public Instruction] Commissioner of Professional and
12 Occupational Affairs and the Secretary of Health, shall receive
13 [fifteen] thirty dollars per diem, while actually engaged in the
14 work of the board. The secretary shall receive such reasonable
15 compensation as shall be determined by the board, with the
16 approval of the [Superintendent of Public Instruction]
17 Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs.
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