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Whitney HB No. 1074
Abstract: Provides for an exemption to state licensure requirements for visiting physicians
affiliated with sports teams.
Present law provides enumerated exemptions to requirements for physician licensure and other
requirements relative to the practice of medicine as set forth in present law.
Proposed law retains present law and adds thereto an exemption for physicians who are licensed
to practice medicine in another state or country when attending to the acute care needs of the
official traveling party of athletes and staff of an athletic team or organization domiciled in
another state or country during or in connection with an athletic contest or event conducted in
Louisiana.
Proposed law stipulates that the exemption provided therein shall not be construed to allow the
performance of any elective procedure by a physician who is not duly licensed to practice
medicine in accordance with present law.
(Adds R.S. 37:1291(6))