(a) The Office of Personnel Management shall establish and maintain a position classification of physician assistant. The initial position classification shall mirror the Veterans Health Administration Directive 10-95-020 of March 3, 1995, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs regulation as embodied in:
(1) MP-5, Part II, Chapter 2, Change 2, Appendix H; and
(2) MP-5, Part II, Chapter 5, Change 5.
(b) Modifications or changes in the future to the state position classification of physician assistant shall only be made based upon the concurrence of the physician assistant advisory committee.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions
Chapter 105 - Physician Assistants
§ 17-105-102. Qualifications for licensure
§ 17-105-103. Graduate license — Temporary license
§ 17-105-104. Inactive license
§ 17-105-106. Exemption from licensure
§ 17-105-107. Scope of authority — Delegatory authority — Agent of supervising physician
§ 17-105-108. Prescriptive authority
§ 17-105-110. Supervising physician
§ 17-105-111. Notification of intent to practice
§ 17-105-112. Exclusions of limitations of employment
§ 17-105-114. Disciplinary authority
§ 17-105-115. Title and practice protection
§ 17-105-116. Identification requirements
§ 17-105-117. Rulemaking authority
§ 17-105-118. Regulation by Arkansas State Medical Board
§ 17-105-119. “Good Samaritan” provision
§ 17-105-120. Retired physician assistants
§ 17-105-121. Physician assistant employment — Uniform Classification Plan
§ 17-105-122. Physician assistant patient care orders
§ 17-105-123. Medical malpractice — Professional and legal liability for actions