General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1038
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 3858
*03858_______PH_*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 1038
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 3858
*03858_______PH_*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF SURGERY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 20-9 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2013):
(a) No person shall, for compensation, gain or reward, received or expected, diagnose, treat, operate for or prescribe for any injury, deformity, ailment or disease, actual or imaginary, of another person, nor practice surgery, until [he] such person has obtained such a license as provided in section 20-10, and then only in the kind or branch of practice stated in such license. For purposes of this section, "surgery" means the structural alteration of the human body by an incision of tissue for the purpose of diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of conditions or disease using any instrument causing localized alteration or transposition of live human tissue, but does not include procedures for the removal of superficial foreign bodies from the human body, punctures, injections, dry needling, acupuncture, the removal of dead tissue or the scraping or brushing of live tissue where such removal, scraping or brushing is accomplished without an incision causing localized alteration or transposition of live human tissue.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2013 20-9(a)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2013
20-9(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To define surgery for purposes of the practice of medicine or surgery under licenses issued by the Department of Public Health.
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