Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §3282-A, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1997, c. 680, Pt. C, §§5 to 8, is further amended by amending the first paragraph to read:

2. Grounds for discipline. The board may censure an individual licensed under this chapter or suspend or revoke a license pursuant to Title 5, section 10004. The following are grounds for an action to censure an individual licensed under this chapter or refuse to issue, modify, restrict, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew the license of an individual licensed under this chapter:

Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §3282-A, sub-§2, ķE, as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218, is further amended to read:

E. Incompetence in the practice for which the licensee is licensed. A licensee is considered incompetent in the practice if the licensee has:

(1) Engaged in one or more acts of conduct that evidences evidence a lack of ability or fitness to discharge the duty owed by the licensee to a client or patient or the general public; or

(2) Engaged in conduct that evidences a lack of knowledge or inability to apply principles or skills to carry out the practice for which the licensee is licensed;

SUMMARY

This bill allows the Board of Licensure in Medicine to censure or otherwise discipline a person licensed in medicine if that person commits even one act of incompetence on one patient.