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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 769 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5441 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 769 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. FERRARO, 117th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CONNECTICUT HEALTH FREEDOM AND | |
| 19 | 19 | ACCESS ACT. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That the general statutes be amended to permit a health care 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | provider who is not licensed, certified or registered by the state to 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | provide health care services in the state, provided (1) such provider 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | does not perform surgery, set fractures, perform any other procedure 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | on any person that punctures or harmfully invades the skin, prescribe 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | or administer x-rays, prescribe or administer drugs, devices or 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | controlled substances for which a prescription by a licensed health care 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | provider is required, perform chiropractic adjustment of the 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | articulations of joints or the spine or hold out himself or herself as 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | licensed, certified or registered by the state, and (2) such provider 10 | |
| 33 | 33 | makes certain disclosures regarding his or her unlicensed, uncertified 11 | |
| 34 | 34 | or unregistered status to anyone seeking his or her health care services. 12 | |
| 35 | 35 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 36 | 36 | To provide the public access to practitioners providing health care | |
| 37 | 37 | services with appropriate consumer protections. |