Bill Text - SB385 (2014)

Relative to examination requirements for chiropractors.


Revision: March 27, 2014, midnight

SB 385 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

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SENATE BILL 385

AN ACT relative to examination requirements for chiropractors.

SPONSORS: Sen. Reagan, Dist 17

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill makes changes to the examination requirements for chiropractors.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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08/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to examination requirements for chiropractors.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 National Examination; Examination Requirements for Chiropractors. Amend RSA 316-A:17 to read as follows:

316-A:17 National Examination; Examination Requirements. The board shall require that [all] applicants pass parts 1 [and 2], 2, and 3 and the written clinical competency examinations of the national examination given by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners if an applicant was licensed after January 1, 1990, and parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the written clinical competency examinations of the national examination given by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners if the applicant was licensed or applied for a license after January 1, 1996. Applicants having passed the national examinations shall be exempt from taking a written examination and, provided the applicant meets all other qualifications and requirements of this chapter, shall be registered and granted a license by the state board upon payment of the required fee and presentation of satisfactory proof that the applicant has passed the parts of such national examination.

2 Repeal. The following are repealed:

I. RSA 316-A:13, relative to examination requirements for chiropractors.

II. RSA 316-A:14, relative to examination requirements for chiropractors.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.