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2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 750
BY REPRESENTATIVE STAGNI
CHIROPRACTORS: Provides relative to educational qualifications of applicants to the La.
Board of Chiropractic Examiners
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 37:2805(A) and (B)(1)(d), relative to requirements for licensure
3 by the Louisiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners; to provide relative to educational
4 qualifications of applicants to the board; to provide for technical corrections; and to
5 provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 37:2805(A) and (B)(1)(d) are hereby amended and reenacted to read
8as follows:
9 ยง2805. Requirement for license; penalty; qualifications; examinations; issuance of
10 license
11 A.(1) No person shall engage or attempt to engage in the practice of
12 chiropractic in this state who has not been licensed in accordance with the provisions
13 of this Chapter.
14 (2) Whoever violates this subsection Subsection shall be fined not more than
15 three hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than three months, or both, and
16 each day a violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
17 B.(1) The board shall license as a chiropractor and issue an appropriate
18 certificate to any person who files with it a verified application therefor,
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1 accompanied by such fee as is required by R.S. 37:2809, together with evidence,
2 verified by oath and satisfactory to the board, that the applicant:
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4 (d) Has completed at least sixty hours of course work at a college or
5 university of liberal arts or science which, at the time of attendance thereof, was fully
6 accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency. Beginning on July 1,
7 2011, each Each applicant for licensure shall hold a baccalaureate degree from a
8 college or university approved by an accrediting agency of the United States
9 Department of Education or its successor or foreign equivalent.
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 750 Original 2018 Regular Session Stagni
Abstract: Provides relative to foreign equivalency of educational qualifications of
applicants to the La. Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
Present law requires that in order to become licensed by the La. Board of Chiropractic
Examiners, an applicant shall hold a baccalaureate degree from a college or university
approved by an accrediting agency of the U.S. Department of Education.
Proposed law retains present law and provides that the accrediting agency may also include
the successor of the U.S. Department of Education or its foreign equivalent.
(Amends R.S. 37:2805(A) and (B)(1)(d))
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