SB443 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tammy Irons
Democrat
Co-Sponsors: Cam Ward Gerald O. Dial
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Chiropractors, term chiropractic further defined, schools teaching chiropractic required to be accredited by Council on Chiropractic Education, additionally certified chiropractors authorized to prescribe and administer certain drugs and natural compounds, Sec. 34-24-120 am'd.
Description: Existing law provides for the licensing of chiropractors.
This bill would further define the term chiropractic and would further provide that chiropractic would include the means and methods taught by schools or colleges of chiropractic accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education or its successors and recognized by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
This bill would allow additionally certified chiropractors to prescribe and administer legend drugs that are considered natural compounds, would allow additionally certified chiropractors to prescribe and administer natural compounds which are not classified as legend drugs, and would allow chiropractors to prescribe over-the-counter medicines and over-the-counter natural compounds.
Subjects: Chiropractic Examiners, State Board of

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Health