71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
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LC 508
 
                         House Bill 2059
 
Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5).
  Presession filed (at the request of Representative Jerry
  Krummel)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Requires licensure as physical therapist assistant of licensed
physical therapist who requests licensure and pays fee.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to licensure of physical therapist assistants; amending
  ORS 688.080.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 688.080 is amended to read:
  688.080. (1) The Physical Therapist Licensing Board may license
as a physical therapist or license as a physical therapist
assistant, without examination, any person who:
  (a) Applies for such license as provided in ORS 688.040; and
  (b) On the date of making application is a physical therapist
or physical therapist assistant licensed under the laws of any
other state or territory of the United States, if the
requirements for licensing of physical therapists or physical
therapist assistants in the state or territory in which the
applicant is licensed are not less than those required in ORS
688.010 to 688.220 and the applicant passed to the satisfaction
of the examiner of such state or territory a written examination
which is approved by the board of this state, or never having
been licensed in another state or territory, the applicant has
been graduated during the immediate preceding 12 months from a
school which has been approved by a board of this state, and on
the date of application has passed to the satisfaction of the
board an examination which is approved by the board of this
state.
   { +  (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of ORS 688.010 to
688.220, the Physical Therapist Licensing Board shall license,
without examination, as a physical therapist assistant any
physical therapist licensed in this state who applies for
licensure as a physical therapist assistant. + }
    { - (2) - }   { + (3) + } Each applicant under this section
shall pay a fee to the board at the time of filing the
application.
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