Citations Affected: IC 25-1.
Synopsis: Health professions standards. Defines "sexual contact" as:
(1) sexual intercourse; (2) deviate sexual conduct; or (3) any fondling
or touching intended to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the
individual performing the fondling or touching or the individual being
fondled or touched. Adds to the health professions standards a
prohibition against a practitioner engaging in or soliciting sexual
contact with a patient who is not the practitioner's spouse.
Effective: July 1, 2001.
January 11, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
February 1, 2001, reported _ Do Pass.
February 8, 2001, read second time, ordered engrossed. Engrossed.
February 12, 2001, read third time, passed. Yeas 96, nays 0.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
professions and occupations.
deception in order to obtain a license to practice;
(B) engaged in fraud or material deception in the course of
professional services or activities; or
(C) advertised services in a false or misleading manner;
(2) a practitioner has been convicted of a crime that has a direct
bearing on the practitioner's ability to continue to practice
competently;
(3) a practitioner has knowingly violated any state statute or rule,
or federal statute or regulation, regulating the profession in
question;
(4) a practitioner has continued to practice although the
practitioner has become unfit to practice due to:
(A) professional incompetence that:
(i) may include the undertaking of professional activities
that the practitioner is not qualified by training or experience
to undertake; and
(ii) does not include activities performed under
IC 16-21-2-9;
(B) failure to keep abreast of current professional theory or
practice;
(C) physical or mental disability; or
(D) addiction to, abuse of, or severe dependency upon alcohol
or other drugs that endanger the public by impairing a
practitioner's ability to practice safely;
(5) a practitioner has engaged in a course of lewd or immoral
conduct in connection with the delivery of services to the public;
(6) a practitioner has allowed the practitioner's name or a license
issued under this chapter to be used in connection with an
individual who renders services beyond the scope of that
individual's training, experience, or competence;
(7) a practitioner has had disciplinary action taken against the
practitioner or the practitioner's license to practice in any other
state or jurisdiction on grounds similar to those under this
chapter;
(8) a practitioner has diverted:
(A) a legend drug (as defined in IC 16-18-2-199); or
(B) any other drug or device issued under a drug order (as
defined in IC 16-42-19-3) for another person;
(9) a practitioner, except as otherwise provided by law, has
knowingly prescribed, sold, or administered any drug classified
as a narcotic, addicting, or dangerous drug to a habitue or addict;
or