PROVIDED SUMMARY
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Autonomous Practice; Authorizes certain advanced practice registered nurses to engage in autonomous practice to provide mental health services.
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Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATED
Lets psychiatric nurse practitioners practice mental health care independently.
Advanced practice registered nurses certified in psychiatric mental health can now engage in autonomous practice to provide mental health services, a privilege previously reserved for primary care specialties like family medicine and pediatrics.
This extends autonomous practice, previously limited to primary care and nurse-midwifery, into psychiatric mental health services for the first time under this section of the law.
KEY PROVISIONS
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Extends autonomous practice to psychiatric mental health nurses
majors. 464.0123(3)(a)
AIAn advanced practice registered nurse certified as a psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurse may now engage in autonomous practice to provide mental health services, a category added alongside the existing primary care and nurse-midwifery paths.
“If an advanced practice registered nurse is certified as a psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurse”
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TIMELINE
2/9/2026
Referred to Rules
2/4/2026
Passed; YEAS 88, NAYS 18
2/4/2026
Added to Third Reading Calendar
1/29/2026
Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/4/2026)
1/21/2026
Added to Second Reading Calendar
1/21/2026
Bill released to House Calendar
1/21/2026
Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
1/21/2026
Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee
1/16/2026
Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
1/15/2026
Now in Health & Human Services Committee
1/15/2026
Reported out of Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
1/14/2026
Favorable by Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
1/13/2026
1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
1/12/2026
Added to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee agenda
11/12/2025
Now in Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
11/12/2025
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
11/12/2025
Referred to Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee
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