Title 63, Professions Of The Healing Arts

(a) In order to safeguard life, health and property and promote public welfare by requiring that only properly qualified persons shall practice respiratory care in this state, any person practicing respiratory care shall be licensed as provided in this chapter, and it is unlawful…

(a) The knowledge and skills for performing the functions of a registered respiratory therapist must be acquired by academic and clinical preparation in a respiratory care program supported, approved, or otherwise recognized by the board or by the National Board for Respiratory C…

(a) The knowledge and skills for performing the functions of a certified respiratory therapist must be acquired by academic and clinical preparation in a respiratory care program supported, approved, or otherwise recognized by the board or by the National Board for Respiratory Ca…

(a) The knowledge and skills for performing the functions of a respiratory assistant shall be acquired through compliance with the requirements of § 63-27-102(4). (b) The assistant's role shall not include the exercising of independent, clinical judgment. The assistant may be exp…

(a) Every licensed respiratory care practitioner shall obtain, during each calendar year, at least ten (10) hours of continuing professional respiratory care education that meets the guidelines established for such continuing education by the rules of the board. Each licensed pra…

(a) (1) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit:(A) Any person licensed or certified to practice any of the other health-related professions in this state under any other law from engaging in the practice for which such person is licensed or certified; or(B) Persons employed as su…

(a) No person shall by verbal claim, advertisement, letterhead, card, or in any other way, claim to be a registered respiratory therapist, certified respiratory therapist or respiratory assistant unless such person possesses a valid license issued pursuant to this chapter. (b) It…

(a) The board has the power to impose any of the disciplinary sanctions set forth in this section whenever the licensee is found guilty of violating this chapter or committing any of the following acts or offenses:(1) Making false or misleading statements or committing fraud in p…

Any person currently licensed as a registered respiratory therapist who has not obtained the credential “registered respiratory therapist (RRT)” from the National Board for Respiratory Care shall have until January 1, 2004, to obtain such credential in order to continue being lic…

(1) Blood gas analysis, and maintenance and quality assurance of a blood gas laboratory may not be performed by any practitioner licensed under this chapter unless:(1) In the case of a registered respiratory therapist or certified respiratory therapist, the registered respiratory…

(a) The board may issue a temporary license to an individual applicant who has completed the required respiratory care educational program but who has not yet successfully completed the NBRC examination. A temporary license shall automatically expire one (1) year from its date of…

As a part of its licensing and regulation of home medical equipment providers under § 68-11-226, the board for licensing health care facilities shall establish uniform standards to ensure the competency of persons who deliver and install respiratory equipment.

This state hereby enters into the “Respiratory Care Interstate Compact” (“compact”) as set forth in this part. The text of the compact is set forth in §§ 63-27-202 - 63-27-214.

(a) The purpose of this compact is to facilitate the interstate practice of respiratory therapy with the goal of improving public access to respiratory therapy services by providing respiratory therapists licensed in a member state the ability to practice in other member states. …

(1) As used in this compact, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Active military member” means any person with a full-time duty status in the armed forces of the United States, including members of the national guard and reserve;(2) “…

(a) In order to participate in this compact and thereafter continue as a member state, a member state shall:(1) Enact a compact that is not materially different from the model compact;(2) License respiratory therapists;(3) Participate in the commission's data system;(4) Have a me…

(a) To exercise the compact privilege under the terms and provisions of the compact, the licensee shall:(1) Hold and maintain an active home state license as a respiratory therapist;(2) Hold and maintain an active credential from the national board for respiratory care, or its su…

(a) An active military member, or their spouse, shall designate a home state where the individual has a current license in good standing. The individual may retain the home state designation during the period the service member is on active duty. (b) An active military member and…

(a) A member state in which a licensee is licensed shall have authority to impose adverse action against the license issued by that member state. (b) A member state may take adverse action based on significant investigative information of a remote state or the home state, so long…

(a) The compact member states hereby create and establish a joint government agency whose membership consists of all member states that have enacted the compact known as the respiratory care interstate compact commission. The commission is an instrumentality of the compact member…

(a) The commission shall provide for the development, maintenance, operation, and utilization of a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse action, and the presence of significant investigative information. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of…

(a) The commission shall promulgate reasonable rules in order to effectively and efficiently implement and administer the purposes and provisions of the compact. A rule shall be invalid and have no force or effect only if a court of competent jurisdiction holds that the rule is i…

(a) Oversight. (1) The executive and judicial branches of state government in each member state shall enforce this compact and take all actions necessary and appropriate to implement the compact.(2) Venue is proper and judicial proceedings by or against the commission shall be br…

(a) (1) The compact shall come into effect on the date on which the compact statute is enacted into law in the seventh member state (“effective date”).(2) (A) On or after the effective date of the compact, the commission shall convene and review the enactment of each of the first…

(a) This compact and the commission's rulemaking authority shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes and the implementation and administration of the compact. Provisions of the compact expressly authorizing or requiring the promulgation of rules shall not be c…

(a) Nothing herein shall prevent or inhibit the enforcement of any other law of a member state that is not inconsistent with the compact. (b) Any laws, statutes, regulations, or other legal requirements in a member state in conflict with the compact are superseded to the extent o…

The board of respiratory care, in consultation with the department of health, may promulgate rules in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, to implement this part.

(a) This part takes effect on the date the compact is enacted into law in the seventh compact state. (b) The board of respiratory care shall notify the chair of the government operations committee of the senate, the chair of any committee in the house of representatives with subj…