To expand the scope of a health care assistant. This bill would allow health care assistants to administer certain over-the-counter and prescription drugs. This act directs the secretary of health to compile a comprehensive list of drugs to be administered by a health care assistant and provides examples.   Official Text and Analysis.

To specify the list of drugs that health care assistants may be authorized to administer and deletes authority for the Secretary of Health to make certain exceptions to the list. The substitute also limits the health care assistants who can administer oral drugs to certain categories of health care assistants identified under the Department of Health (DOH) rules, adds that health care assistants administering the drugs must demonstrate initial and ongoing competency as determined by the health care practitioner and deletes the requirement that health care assistants administering the listed drugs must have graduated from an accredited medical assistant program and a requirement for the DOH to adopt rules concerning initial and continued competency, including four hours of continuing education, removes "professional service corporation" from the definition of a "health care facility", states that the DOH is required to conduct a sunrise review of the practice of medical assistants and removes the emergency clause and adds that the operative provisions expire on July 1, 2013.