2016 Tennessee Code
Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts
Chapter 28 - Clinical Perfusionist Licensure Act
§ 63-28-114. Committee powers and duties.

(a) The committee shall:

(1) Adopt and publish a code of ethics;

(2) Establish the qualifications and fitness of applicants for licenses, renewal of licenses and reciprocal licenses;

(3) Establish the grounds for revocation, suspension, or denial of a license;

(4) Establish the grounds for placing on probation a holder of a license;

(5) Establish the categories of fees and the amount of fees that may be imposed in connection with a license;

(6) Establish continuing professional education requirements for licensed clinical perfusionists and provisional licensed clinical perfusionists, the standards of which shall be at least as stringent as those of the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion or its successor agency for the license holder's professional duties; and

(7) Assist in such matters dealing with perfusion as the board may, in its discretion, direct.

(b) Any actions taken under this section shall only be effective after adoption by a majority vote of the members of the committee. The board of medical examiners, by a majority vote of its members at the next board meeting at which administrative matters are considered, may rescind or supersede any action taken by the committee.