Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4763 Ratification Number:508 Act Number:436 Primary Sponsor:Kirsh Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Nursing, practice of, reexamination requirements Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19940517 Computer Document Number:PT/1044AC.94 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19940527 Introduced Date:19940217 Last History Body:------ Last History Date:19940527 Last History Type:Act No. 436 Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Kirsh Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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4763 ------ 19940527 Act No. 436
4763 ------ 19940527 Signed by Governor
4763 ------ 19940524 Ratified R 508
4763 Senate 19940517 Read third time, enrolled for
ratification
4763 Senate 19940511 Read second time
4763 Senate 19940509 Committee Report: Favorable 13
4763 Senate 19940426 Committed to Committee 13
4763 Senate 19940426 Recalled from Committee 12
4763 Senate 19940421 Introduced, read first time, 12
referred to Committee
4763 House 19940420 Read third time, sent to
Senate
4763 House 19940419 Read second time
4763 House 19940330 Committee Report: Favorable 27
4763 House 19940217 Introduced, read first time, 27
referred to Committee
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(A436, R508, H4763)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 40-33-50, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO APPLICATIONS OF CHAPTER 33, TITLE 40, THE NURSE PRACTICE ACT, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE CHAPTER MAY NOT PROHIBIT THE PRACTICE OF NURSING BY GRADUATES OF NURSING SCHOOLS AWAITING LICENSING EXAMINATION RESULTS, AND TO AMEND SECTION 40-33-920, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO LICENSING REEXAMINATION, SO AS TO REVISE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR REEXAMINATION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Students may not be prohibited from practicing nursing
SECTION 1. Section 40-33-50(4) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 114 of 1987, is further amended to read:
"(4) As prohibiting the practice of nursing by students enrolled in approved schools of nursing or approved schools of practical nursing, nor by graduates of these schools pending the results of the first licensing examination taken by the graduate following graduation;"
Reexamination
SECTION 2. Section 40-33-920 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 114 of 1987, is further amended to read:
"Section 40-33-920. An applicant who does not pass the first examination may repeat the examination within one year of taking the examination as provided by the board in regulation. An applicant who does not pass the examination within one year of first taking the examination must provide evidence satisfactory to the board of remediation before reexamination. An applicant who has not passed the examination within three (3) years of first taking the examination must requalify to take the examination as provided by the board in regulation."
Time effective
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 27th day of May, 1994.