HLS 24RS-1544 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 838
BY REPRESENTATIVE TURNER
LICENSING: Provides relative to licensing requirements for the practice of clinical
laboratory science
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 37:1324(B) and to repeal R.S. 37:1319, relative to the licensing
3 requirements for the practice of clinical laboratory science; to revise licensure
4 requirements; to repeal provisions granting licensure without examination; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 37:1324(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง1324. License in training
9 * * *
10 B. An applicant who is certified by a national certification agency
11 recognized by the board, but who has not engaged in the practice of clinical
12 laboratory science within the last ten five years and has not maintained the
13 continuing education requirements as approved by the board, upon recommendation
14 of the committee, shall be granted a license in training to engage in the practice of
15 clinical laboratory science in the category for which he is otherwise qualified until
16 the supervised retraining period and the continuing education requirements as
17 approved by the board are completed.
18 Section 2. R.S. 37:1319 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
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HB NO. 838
DIGEST
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part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 838 Original 2024 Regular Session Turner
Abstract: Revises requirements for licensure of clinical laboratory scientists.
Present law requires an applicant who is certified by a national certification agency
recognized by the board and has not engaged in the practice of clinical laboratory science
within the last 10 years to be granted a license in training to engage in the practice of clinical
laboratory science in the category for which he is otherwise qualified until the supervised
retraining period and the continuing education requirements are completed.
Proposed law changes the year requirement from 10 to five and otherwise retains present
law.
Proposed law repeals the present law provision that allows any individual who desires to be
licensed as a clinical laboratory scientist-generalist, clinical laboratory scientist-specialist,
clinical laboratory scientist-technician, cytotechnologist, or laboratory assistant to qualify
for licensure and be issued the appropriate license without examination prior to January 1,
1995.
Proposed law also repeals the present law provision that allows the board, upon the
recommendation of the committee, to license or certify, without examination an applicant
for licensure who is duly licensed or certified in the same or comparable category for which
he is applying for licensure or certification in this state if the qualifications for licensure of
such applicant are at least equal to the qualifications required by proposed law.
(Amends R.S. 37:1324(B); Repeals R.S. 37:1319)
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