2025 Regular Session - Day 16 - HB 72, Rep. DJ Johnson

thank you Mr Speaker arise today to present to you house bill 72 which amends KRS 311b 020 which deals with limited x-ray machine operators House Bill 72 does two things and only two things the first thing it does is allow limited x-ray machine operators to operate and do their jobs in the same facilities as other imaging technology machines and operators such as fluoroscopy uh MRIs that sort of thing the second thing this bill does is it very clearly states and emphasizes the limited scope of practice that limited x-ray machine operators can perform it intentionally identifies the limits for these machine operators just a little bit of background um up until 2012 x-ray machine operators were allowed to operate in the same facilities as other uh Imaging and and diagnostic technology in 2012 General Assembly passed uh legislation that forced x-ray machine operators to be relocated into a separate facility from all the other uh Imaging and diagnostic Technologies so let's think about this for a minute if you had a broken leg and you were wanting to go to a facility and um see the doctor see how your leg was doing if you needed an x-ray you would go into one building see the doctor and then you would have to limp over to a second building a different building to get an x-ray and then limp back over to see the doctor again to find out what that x-ray was because of this legislation what house bill 72 does again is simply amend the law to allow x-ray machine operators competent trained certified operators to be located in the same building as these other Imaging Technologies so very quickly in 2012 what this what would have happened in 2012 was on one day an x-ray machine operator would have been operating legally in a building and the next day their employer would have three options one relocate the X-ray machine into a different facility Two Fire the operator or three be out of compliance with the new law to be honest this simply did not make any sense to me so again this is the purpose of House Bill 72 it doesn't do anything other than that doesn't change the scope of service in fact again it re-emphasizes the scope of service and uh it allows xray x-ray machine operators to legally operate in the same building as everybody else in that practice Mr Speaker subject to any questions I move for passage of fville 72