To amend sections 109.71, 3129.01, 3313.5310, 3333.28, 3701.69, 3701.92, 3701.921, 3705.01, 3705.30, 3707.58, 3721.011, 3728.01, 4503.44, 4723.01, 4723.063, 4723.18, 4723.181, 4723.28, 4723.34, 4723.35, 4723.36, 4723.43, 4723.431, 4723.47, 4723.481, 4723.482, 4723.483, 4723.493, 4723.52, 4723.66, 4723.67, 4723.69, 4731.297, and 5122.10 and to repeal sections 3701.923, 3701.924, 3701.925, 3701.926, 3701.927, and 3701.929 of the Revised Code to modify the laws governing a Board of Nursing advisory body for advanced practice registered nurses and to make various corrections in other laws pertaining to the Board and the professionals it regulates.
HB567 is a broad technical-and-policy update bill centered on the Ohio Board of Nursing and the advanced practice registered nurses it regulates. Its main purpose is to modify the Board’s advisory body for advanced practice registered nurses, replacing the existing structure with a new advisory group that is intended to advise the Board on APRN practice and regulation. The bill also makes numerous conforming and cleanup changes across the Revised Code to align terminology and cross-references with current nursing law and related health, education, and public safety provisions.
Beyond the advisory-group changes, the bill revises a wide range of statutes touching nursing licensure, prescriptive authority, medication aides, nursing education grants and loans, safe-haven monitoring for impaired practitioners, death pronouncement authority, and disciplinary procedures. It also updates related laws involving school and youth sports cardiac-arrest requirements, Down syndrome information sheets, birth defects reporting, accessible parking placards, emergency mental-health custody, and a special medical licensure pathway for certain international medical graduates at academic medical centers. Several obsolete or temporary provisions are repealed, including multiple sections tied to prior patient-centered medical home pilot structures and a prior House Bill 33 section.
The bill’s legal impact is primarily to modernize and harmonize Ohio statutes rather than to create a single new program. It would change how the Board of Nursing receives advice on APRN issues, clarify and in some cases expand the roles of advanced practice nurses and licensed practical nurses, and adjust administrative processes for education funding, discipline, and practice standards. It also makes targeted updates in other areas of law where nurses, physicians, or health care facilities are referenced, ensuring those provisions match current licensing categories and practice authority.
The general sentiment reflected by the bill’s introduction is neutral-to-supportive in a technical sense, since it appears to be a housekeeping and regulatory alignment measure rather than a highly partisan proposal. No committee testimony or votes were provided, so there is no recorded public debate in the supplied materials. Based on the text alone, the bill appears designed to streamline regulation and correct inconsistencies, which typically draws support from professional licensing stakeholders and administrative agencies.
The main potential points of contention are likely to involve the scope of advanced practice nursing authority and the bill’s treatment of gender-related and reproductive-health terminology in the sections it amends. The bill also touches on sensitive areas such as youth sports medical restrictions, mental-health custody, and controlled-substance prescribing, any of which could prompt scrutiny from medical, education, or advocacy groups. However, because no hearing transcript or vote history is included, there is no direct evidence of opposition or specific objections in the available record.
HB567 would amend numerous sections of the Revised Code to update Ohio’s nursing and related health-care statutes, especially those governing advanced practice registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, medication aides, nursing education funding, disciplinary authority, and the Board of Nursing’s advisory structure. It also makes conforming changes in statutes affecting schools, youth sports, public health reporting, accessible parking, mental-health emergency custody, and medical licensure, while repealing several obsolete provisions and a prior temporary section from H.B. 33. The bill would therefore affect the Board of Nursing, APRNs, LPNs, medication aides, health care facilities, schools, youth sports organizations, and certain patients and applicants interacting with these systems.
No committee testimony or vote history was provided, so there is no documented public sentiment in the supplied materials. Based on the bill text, the measure appears largely administrative and technical, with a policy focus on modernizing nursing regulation and aligning cross-references across the code. That suggests a generally pragmatic or supportive posture, though the breadth of the bill means some provisions could attract issue-specific scrutiny.
The most likely areas of contention are the bill’s changes to advanced practice nursing scope, prescriptive authority, and the structure of the Board of Nursing’s APRN advisory body. Additional sensitive provisions include the bill’s definitions and restrictions related to gender transition services for minors, as well as updates touching controlled substances, mental-health custody, and youth athletic safety rules. Because no hearings or votes are included, the record does not identify any specific opponents or supporters, but these topics are the ones most likely to draw debate.