Summary
Establishes a formal Office of Professional Licensure Review process for evaluating whether regulated healthcare occupations should incorporate technological innovations, including artificial intelligence, in ways that expand professional scope of practice. Requires evidence and risk review, consultation with an advisory group, and reports and recommendations to the Business and Labor Interim Committee.
Healthcare Implications
Creates a state governance pathway for evaluating whether AI can augment licensed practitioners and support scope-of-practice expansion. It does not itself expand any professional license or prohibit autonomous AI care; technology that solely provides advice or treatment without practitioner-patient interaction is excluded from this review pathway.
Operational Implications
- For each accepted scope-of-practice review involving AI or another healthcare technology, the Office of Professional Licensure Review must convene an advisory group, evaluate evidence concerning safety, effectiveness, accessibility, affordability, patient risk, practitioner training, and adoption elsewhere, and submit recommendations to the Business and Labor Interim Committee; technology that solely provides advice or treatment without practitioner-patient interaction is not eligible as an innovation under this process.