South Carolina H 4983: Veterans' Bill of Rights

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2025-2026 Bill 4983 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 20, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4983

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ENACTING THE 
"LICENSED PERFUSIONIST PRACTICE ACT" BY ADDING ARTICLE 12 TO CHAPTER 47, TITLE 
40 SO AS TO ESTABLISH THE PERFUSIONISTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE UNDER THE BOARD OF 
MEDICAL EXAMINERS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE LICENSURE AND REGULATION OF 
PERFUSIONISTS, TO ESTABLISH THE RESPECTIVE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE 
BOARD AND THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS, 
AMONG OTHER THINGS.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Licensed Perfusionist Practice Act."

SECTION 2. Chapter 47, Title 40 of the S.C. Code is amended by 
adding:

Article 12

Licensed Perfusionist Practice Act

 Section 
40-47-1900. The General Assembly finds and declares that the public interest 
requires the regulation of the practice of perfusion and the establishment of 
licensure standards for perfusionists and that the health and welfare of the 
residents of this State will be protected by identifying to the public those 
individuals who are qualified and legally authorized to practice perfusion.

 Section 
40-47-1910. As used in this article:

 (1) 
"Board" means the State Board of Medical Examiners.

 (2) 
"Committee" means the Perfusionists Advisory Committee established pursuant to 
Section 40-47-1930.

 (3) 
"Extracorporeal circulation" means the diversion of a patient's blood through a 
heart-lung machine or a similar device that assumes the functions of the 
patient's heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, or other organs.

 (4) 
"Perfusion" means the functions necessary for the support, treatment, 
measurement, or supplementation of the cardiovascular, circulatory, or 
respiratory system or other organs, or a combination of those activities, and 
to ensure the safe management of physiologic functions by monitoring and 
analyzing the parameters of the systems under an order and under the 
supervision of a licensed physician, including:

 (a) 
the use of extracorporeal circulation, long-term cardiopulmonary support 
techniques, including extracorporeal carbon-dioxide removal and extracorporeal 
membrane oxygenation, and associated therapeutic and diagnostic technologies;

 (b) 
counterpulsation, ventricular assistance, autotransfusion, blood conservation 
techniques, myocardial and organ preservation, extracorporeal life support, and 
isolated limb perfusion;

 (c) 
the use of techniques involving blood management, advanced life support, and 
other related functions;

 (d) 
the administration of:

 (i) pharmacological and therapeutic 
agents;

 (ii) blood products or anesthetic 
agents through the extracorporeal circuit or through an intravenous line as 
ordered by a physician;

 (e) 
the conducting and use of:

 (i) anticoagulation monitoring and 
analysis;

 (ii) physiologic monitoring and 
analysis;

 (iii) blood gas and chemistry 
monitoring and analysis;

 (iv) hematologic monitoring and 
analysis;

 (v) hypothermia;

 (vi) hyperthermia;

 (vii) hemoconcentration and 
hemodilution;

 (viii) hemodialysis; and

 (f) 
the observation of signs and symptoms related to perfusion services, the 
determination of whether the signs and symptoms exhibit abnormal 
characteristics, and the implementation of appropriate reporting, perfusion 
protocols, or changes in or the initiation of emergency procedures.

 (5) 
"Perfusionist" means a person who is licensed to practice perfusion pursuant to 
this article.

 Section 
40-47-1920. (A) A person may not 
engage or offer to engage in perfusion for compensation or use the title or 
represent or imply that the person has the title of "licensed perfusionist" or 
"provisional licensed perfusionist" or use the letters "LP" or "PLP" and may not 
use any facsimile of these titles in any manner to indicate or imply that the 
person is a licensed perfusionist or provisional licensed perfusionist unless 
the person holds an appropriate license issued under this article.

 (B) 
A person may not use the title or represent or imply that the person has the 
title of "certified clinical perfusionist" or use the letter "CCP" and may not 
use any facsimile of those titles in any manner to indicate or imply that the 
person is a certified clinical perfusionist by the American Board of 
Cardiovascular Perfusion unless the person holds a certificate as a certified 
clinical perfusionist issued by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion.

 (C) 
A person who knowingly or intentionally violates subsection (A) or (B) is 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, must be fined five hundred 
dollars or imprisoned up to one year, or both.

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