PRINTER'S NO. 1568
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1444
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY FRANKEL, INNAMORATO, ISAACSON, KINSEY, HILL-EVANS,
SCHLOSSBERG, SANCHEZ, A. DAVIS, GALLOWAY, BRADFORD, ROZZI,
McNEILL, McCLINTON, DELLOSO, HANBIDGE, SCHWEYER, HERRIN,
KINKEAD, DALEY, HOHENSTEIN, T. DAVIS, FITZGERALD, CEPHAS,
STURLA, HOWARD AND SHUSTERMAN, MAY 20, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, MAY 20, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 20, 1985 (P.L.457, No.112),
entitled "An act relating to the right to practice medicine
and surgery and the right to practice medically related acts;
reestablishing the State Board of Medical Education and
Licensure as the State Board of Medicine and providing for
its composition, powers and duties; providing for the
issuance of licenses and certificates and the suspension and
revocation of licenses and certificates; providing penalties;
and making repeals," further providing for definitions; and
providing for certain governmental prohibitions.
It is the intent of the General Assembly to protect the
health of patients under the care of a licensed health care
practitioner by ensuring that the practitioner is able to
communicate freely with patients and exercise his or her medical
judgment, in order to provide the safest and most beneficial
medical treatment to the individual patient.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2 of the act of December 20, 1985
(P.L.457, No.112), known as the Medical Practice Act of 1985, is
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