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Requiring implicit bias training for health-related professionals
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People applying for licenses to work in healthcare must complete training on implicit bias. To get their license, applicants must take a course approved by their specific licensing board or show they have finished similar training.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires implicit bias training as a condition of licensure for health-related professionals. The bill provides that an applicant for a license to practice a profession listed under Code section 147.13 is not eligible to receive a license until the applicant has completed a course of implicit bias training approved by the applicant’s respective licensing board or the applicant is able to satisfy the applicant’s respective board that the applicant received implicit bias training substantially similar to a course of implicit bias training approved by the applicant’s respective board.