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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 631
BY SENATOR LONG
CHIROPRACTORS. Authorizes the Louisiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners to perform
criminal background checks on any licensee or applicant. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 37:2804(L), relative to chiropractors; to provide for licensure of2
chiropractors; to provide for criminal background checks; and to provide for related3
matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 37:2804(L) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง2804. Powers and duties of board 7
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L. The board may require a licensee or an applicant, as a condition of9
licensure to:10
(1) Submit a full set of fingerprints, in a form and manner prescribed by11
the board.12
(2) Permit the board to request and obtain state and national criminal13
history record information on the licensee or applicant. The Bureau of14
Criminal Identification and Information of the office of state police within the15
Department of Public Safety and Corrections shall, upon request and after16
receipt of fingerprint cards or other identifying information from the board,17 SB NO. 631
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make available to the board all arrest and conviction information contained in1
the bureau's criminal history record and identification files, which pertain to2
a licensee or an applicant for licensure. In addition, the fingerprints shall be3
forwarded by the bureau to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national4
criminal history record check.5
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michelle Ducharme.
DIGEST
Long (SB 631)
Present law provides for the regulation of chiropractors by the Louisiana Board of
Chiropractic Examiners ("board").
Proposed law authorizes the board to require a licensee or an applicant, as condition of
licensure to:
1. Submit a full set of fingerprints, in a form and manner prescribed by the board.
2. Permit the board to request and obtain state and national criminal history record
information on the licensee or applicant. The Bureau of Criminal Identification and
Information of the office of state police within the Department of Public Safety and
Corrections shall, upon request and after receipt of fingerprint cards or other
identifying information from the board, make available to the board all arrest and
conviction information contained in the bureau's criminal history record and
identification files, which pertain to a licensee or an applicant for licensure. In
addition, the fingerprints shall be forwarded by the bureau to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for a national criminal history record check.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Adds R.S. 37:2804(L))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer
Protection, and International Affairs to the original bill.
1. Authorizes the board to require, as a condition of licensure, a licensee to
submit a full set of fingerprints.
2. Provides for the responsibility of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and
Information of the office of state police within the DPS&C when a request
is made for state and federal criminal history background information.