No. HB 1203
Filed under Healthcare.
Education on Congenital Cytomegalovirus; Requires DOH, in consultation with medical experts identified by department, to develop educational materials on congenital cytomegalovirus for distribution to expectant & new parents & caregivers; provides requirements for such educational materials; requires certain hospitals, birth centers, & obstetrics & gynecology physician practices to provide educational materials to such parents & caregivers; requires department to provide educational materials to child care facilities; requires licensing boards of certain health care practitioners, beginning on specified date, to require such practitioners to complete board-approved course on congenital cytomegalovirus as part of initial licensure & every other licensure renewal; specifies requirements for course; requires such health care practitioners to submit confirmation of having completed course in specified manner; requires boards to include hour required for completion of course in total hours of continuing education required for such profession, with exception; authorizes person holding two or more licenses subject to continuing education requirement to show proof of completion of course for purposes of relicensure for additional licenses; provides for disciplinary action.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Health must create educational materials on congenital cytomegalovirus, covering its causes, symptoms, prevention, and the neurological, sensory, and physical harm it can cause newborns, including the risk of pregnancy loss.
Hospitals, birth centers, and OB-GYN practices must give these materials to every expectant and new parent receiving maternity or newborn care. Child care facilities receive the materials from the department directly.
Starting July 1, 2026, physicians, osteopathic physicians, nurses, and midwives must complete a 1-hour course on congenital cytomegalovirus when first licensed and every other renewal after that, roughly once every four years.
That training hour counts toward existing continuing-education totals for professions that already require 30 or more hours every two years, but not for professions with lighter continuing-education loads. Skipping it can trigger discipline.
AIThe Department of Health must develop educational materials covering the causes, symptoms, prevention, and health effects of congenital cytomegalovirus, in consultation with medical experts the department identifies.
AIEvery hospital, birth center, and obstetrics and gynecology practice providing maternity or newborn care must give the department's educational materials to expectant and new parents receiving that care.
AIPhysicians, osteopathic physicians, nurses, and midwives must complete a board-approved 1-hour continuing education course on congenital cytomegalovirus as part of initial licensure and every other renewal after that.
AIThe department must also send the same educational materials to child care facilities, and to any other entity it decides is relevant, extending the reach of the requirement beyond medical settings.
AIThe course is required at initial licensure and then only every other biennial renewal, meaning most licensees retake it roughly once every four years rather than every renewal cycle.
AIThe new hour must be absorbed within a profession's existing continuing-education total, unless that profession already requires fewer than 30 hours every two years, in which case the hour is not covered by that offset.
AIA person holding more than one covered license, such as both a nursing and a midwifery license, can use a single completed course to satisfy the requirement across all of them, avoiding duplicate training.