Amends existing law to provide for temporary registration of experienced international medical graduates who are in the United States as asylees, humanitarian parolees, or refugees and to require that registrants agree to practice in a health professional shortage area.
HEALTH -- Amends existing law to provide for temporary registration of experienced international medical graduates who are in the United States as asylees, humanitarian parolees, or refugees and to require that registrants agree to practice in a health professional shortage area.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This legislation would extend a temporary license and registration, usually applied to U.S. Medical School graduates for residency training in Idaho, to experienced International Medical Graduates who are forcibly displaced persons to address the severe doctor shortage while simultaneously putting experienced physicians to work.
HOW THEY VOTED
Senate Third Reading
YEA (35)
NAY (0)
House Third Reading
YEA (65)
ABSENT / NOT VOTING (3)
LATEST ACTION
Session Law Chapter 155 Effective: 07/01/2023
SPONSORS
Rep · HD-025A
Sen · SD-024
Rep · HD-035B
Sen · SD-026
Rep · HD-024A
Sen · SD-009
Sen · SD-035
Sen · SD-005
BILL INFO
- Session
- 2023
- Chamber
- senate
- Status date
- Mar 27, 2023