SB104 Alabama 2020 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Jim McClendonRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2020
- Title
- Physical therapy, eliminate requirement for referral from physician or other health care practitioner to perform physical therapy, Secs. 34-24-191, 34-24-210.1, 34-24-217 am'd.
- Description
Under existing law, physical therapy may only be performed based on a referral from a licensed physician, dentist, chiropractor, physician assistant, or certified registered nurse practitioner, except in limited, enumerated circumstances that allow a licensed physical therapist to perform an initial evaluation or consultation of a screening nature without a referral.
This bill would eliminate the requirement that a licensed physical therapist may only perform physical therapy, except in limited circumstances, based on a referral from a licensed health care practitioner.
- Subjects
- Physical Therapists
Bill Actions
Healthcare first Substitute Offered
Pending third reading on day 13 Favorable from Healthcare with 1 substitute
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Healthcare
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Source: Alabama Legislature