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Relating to licensee discipline relating to financial gain by a physician for actions relating to particular drugs and devices
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 30, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 2, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 Medical professionals could face discipline or fines if they accept money or gifts to promote or prescribe specific drugs and medical devices for improper reasons. The board of medicine would have the power to punish these licensees and charge them up to $10,000.1
Read the official explanation
This bill includes in the acts or offenses for which the board of medicine may discipline a licensee, the receiving or agreeing to receive a commission, rebate, remuneration, or other financial gain in exchange for the promotion of, referral of a patient for, or the selling, prescribing, dispensing, or administering of, a particular drug or device for other than legal and legitimate therapeutic purposes. Under Code section 148.6, licensee discipline may include a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 2, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part