FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
HOUSE BILL NO. 78
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES KENNEDY AND RICHARDSON (Co-sponsors).
Pre-filed December 1, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
Read 1st time January 3, 2001.
Read 2nd time January 4, 2001, and referred to the Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing, January 23, 2001.
Reported from the Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing, February 15, 2001, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.
Perfected by Consent February 26, 2001.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 334.128, RSMo 2000, relating to the state board of registration for the healing arts, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 334.128, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 334.128, to read as follows:
334.128. Any person who reports or provides information to the board, or any person who assists the board, including, but
not limited to, physicians' health programs and individuals working, consulting with or staffing such physicians'
health programs approved by the board for impaired physicians, applicants or licensees who are the subject of an
investigation, physicians serving on competency panels, medical record custodians, consultants, attorneys, board members,
agents, employees or expert witnesses, in the course of any investigation, hearing or other proceeding conducted by or
before the board pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and who does so in good faith and without malice shall not be
subject to an action for civil damages as a result thereof, and no cause of action [of any nature] shall arise against him or
her as a result of his or her conduct pursuant to this section. The attorney general shall defend such persons in any
such action or proceeding.
Missouri House of Representatives