HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5466 FILED ON: 12/14/2020
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 5182
Section 90 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2021 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (see House, No. 5164), which had been returned by His Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment F of House, No. 5190). December 14, 2020. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)
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An Act relative to medical specialty camp medication administration.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to establish forthwith medical specialty camp medication administration, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department of public health, pursuant to its authority under subsection (g) of section 7 of chapter 94C of the General Laws, shall promulgate regulations to allow: (i) student nurses and recently graduated student nurses, as included in the definition of “nurse” in section 1 of said chapter 94C; (ii) medical specialty camp staff trained under the supervision of a practitioner as defined in section 1 of said chapter 94C; and (iii) certified diabetes care and education specialists in good standing with the Certification Board for Diabetes Education and Care, to administer medication to campers at medical specialty camps as defined in the state sanitary code.