Whereas, this legislation needs to take effect before the expiration of the 90 days to ensure that summer camps have adequate medical staffing during the summer of 1999; and

Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §3277, as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §213, is further amended to read:

§3277. Camp physicians

A physician who is in good standing and who is qualified under section 3275, subsection 1, paragraph B may, at the discretion of the board, be temporarily licensed as a camp physician so that the physician may care for the campers in that particular camp for which the physician was hired and retained as a camp physician. That physician is entitled to practice only on patients in the camp. The temporary license must be obtained each year. Application for this temporary license must be made in the same form and manner as for regular licensure. An examination may not be exacted from applicants for these temporary licenses. The fee for temporary licensure may not be more than $100 annually.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

SUMMARY

This bill reduces certain medical training requirements to allow a physician who is in good standing and licensed as a physician in another state to be temporarily licensed as a camp physician in this State.