SB411 / HB1494 – MAAPC still working for you!

Lorraine Diana and Elaine Crain attended Nurses Night in Annapolis last Monday with an impressive array of Bowie State University FNP students. As we made the rounds we asked our Senators and Delegates to support SB411/HB1494 with amendments.

Lorraine Diana wrote the amendments to include nurse practitioners in the bill and we are thrilled to say they have been accepted.

See below for a brief summary and for more information, go to our legislative website – APRNpractice.org - to find out how to navigate the Annapolis General Assembly, look up the process of the bills and find out who your representatives are in Annapolis.

Please feel free to contact your Senators and Delegates and encourage them to support the bills with amendments!

And, as always, we encourage you to join us to keep APRN autonomy in Maryland.

Dr. Elaine Crain, CNP

MAAPC Communications Chair

Authorizing a credit against the State income tax for an individual who serves as a physician preceptor in specified preceptorship programs under specified circumstances and works in specified areas of the State with health care workforce shortages; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to report to the Comptroller and the General Assembly on specified matters on or before January 31 of each taxable year; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015

Amendments for SB 411, which authorizes a credit against the State income tax for licensed physicians serving as physician preceptors in certain medical student preceptorship programs. As requested, these draft amendments expand the bill to authorize a credit for nurse practitioners and licensed physicians serving as preceptors in certain nurse practitioner preceptorship programs.