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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1372
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 5132
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT CONCERNING MEDICAL DEVICE REPRESENTATIVES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2025) A medical device 1
representative shall not provide technical or educational assistance 2
regarding any medical device during the preparation, conduct or 3
completion of a surgical procedure at a hospital, as defined in section 4
19a-490 of the general statutes, unless such medical device 5
representative has undergone credentialing and been issued credentials 6
by such hospital. For the purposes of this section, "credentialing" means 7
a hospital's process of assessing and validating the qualifications of a 8
person applying to be approved to provide treatment, care or services 9
in or for a hospital, and "medical device representative" means a 10
nonhospital employee authorized by a medical device company to 11
provide technical and educational assistance regarding medical devices 12
during the preparation, conduct or completion of surgical procedures. 13
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
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Section 1 October 1, 2025 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require medical device representatives to undergo credentialing by
hospitals.
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