Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-937

EHS 937

Board of Registration in Medicine

Mr. Richard T. Moore moved that the proposed new text be amended moved that the bill be amended by inserting, after section xx, the following new section:-

SECTION XX.  Section 10 of chapter 13 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended, by striking the first paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following:- "There shall be a board of registration in medicine, in this section and section eleven called the board, consisting of nine persons appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be the commissioner of the department of public health, who shall serve as chair.  Four of such members shall be physicians registered under section two of chapter one hundred and twelve, or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, two of whom shall be representatives of the public, subject to the provisions of section nine B, one of whom shall be an advanced practice nurse lincesed section eighty B of chapter one hundred and twelve, and one of whom shall be a pharmacist licensed under section twenty-four of chapter one hundred and twelve.  Each appointed member of the board shall serve for a term of three years, and shall be residents of the commonwealth."; and

by striking, in line 17, the following:- "chairman,".