Current Status Bill Number:5033 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19980414 Primary Sponsor:Fleming All Sponsors:Fleming Drafted Document Number:psd\7332ac.98 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee 27 H3M Subject:Physicians, licensure as; reexamination provisions revised; Medical, surgeons
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House 19980414 Introduced, read first time, 27 H3M
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 40-47-150, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO REEXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE AS A PHYSICIAN, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON MAY BE REEXAMINED FIVE TIMES RATHER THAN FOUR TIMES AND TO REVISE THE CRITERIA FOR QUALIFYING FOR REEXAMINATION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 40-47-150 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 53 of 1987, is further amended to read:
"Section 40-47-150. In case of failure at any examination, the applicant shall have the privilege of a second retaking the examination four times with the payment of the regular fee. In case of failure in a second the fourth examination the applicant, to be eligible, in addition to the requirements for previous examinations, must have pursued his studies for such time as the board may approve and furnish satisfactory evidence thereof.
If the applicant has not met the board's criteria for passing the examination after three takings, he shall not be permitted to retake the examination and any score received after three takings shall not be considered except by special permission of the board. It shall be the responsibility of the applicant to demonstrate special or compelling circumstances in order to have a fourth taking considered including, but not limited to, illness. A petition for special permission shall must be filed with the board setting forth in detail the special or compelling circumstances the applicant wishes the board to consider. These special or compelling circumstances include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) the applicant's successful completion of additional medical education in an American Medical Association approved medical school;
(2) the applicant's score on the third examination and its closeness to the passing score required by the board; or
(3) other special or compelling factors presented by the applicant to the board.
If an individual is granted special permission to have the results of a fourth fifth taking of the examination considered and he the individual still has not passed the examination as required by the board, no further attempts at or scores from the examination shall may be considered by the board."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.