HB 1252
Licensing boards; prohibit from disciplinary or threatening discipline of health care providers for exercising free speech rights.
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Bill overview
An act to create new section 73-49-5, mississippi code of 1972, to prohibit the licensing boards OR agencies of health care practitioners from reprimanding, sanctioning, revoking OR threatening to revoke a license, certificate OR registration of a practitioner for exercising his OR her constitutional right of free speech, unless the board OR agency proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the speech used by the practitioner led to the direct physical harm of a person with whom the practitioner had a practitioner-patient relationship; To require the licensing boards OR agencies of health care practitioners to provide a practitioner with any complaints received for which revocation actions may be IN order within seven days after receipt of such complaint; To amend sections 73-6-19, 73-9-61, 73-15-29, 73-19-23, 73-21-97, 73-23-59, 73-25-29, 73-26-5, 73-27-13, 73-31-21, 73-39-77, 73-71-33 and 73-75-19, mississippi code of 1972, to conform to the preceding provisions; And for related purposes.
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