Immunity in professional review.

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(1) If a professional review committee is established pursuant to section 12-255-108 to investigate the quality of care being given by a person licensed pursuant to this article 295, it shall include in its membership at least three persons licensed in the same category as the licensee under review, but the committee may be authorized to act only by the board.

(2) In addition to the persons specified in section 12-20-402, any member of a professional review committee, any member of a committee's staff, any person acting as a witness or consultant to a committee, any witness testifying in a proceeding authorized under this article 295, and any person who lodges a complaint pursuant to this article 295 is granted the same immunity, and is subject to the same conditions for immunity, as specified in section 1220-402.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1576, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-42-115.5 as it existed prior to 2019.


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