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Emergency Law Inventory | Full Law Text

Law Number

OCGA 38-3-163

Summary Title

Scope of Practice: Volunteer Health Practitioners

Summary

When an emergency declaration is in effect, the Governor can waive, limit, or restrict the duration of practice, location of services, and the type of volunteer health practitioners practicing.

Full Title

Regulation of volunteer health practitioners during an emergency

Full Text

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, a volunteer health practitioner shall adhere to the scope of practice for a similarly licensed volunteer health practitioner established by the licensing provisions, practice acts, or other laws of this state. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this article, this article shall not authorize a volunteer health practitioner to provide services that are outside such volunteer health practitioner's scope of practice, even if a similarly licensed volunteer health practitioner in this state would be permitted to provide such services. (c) A host entity may restrict the health services or veterinary services that a volunteer health practitioner may provide pursuant to this article.

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