ENROLLED
ACT No. 277
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 750
BY REPRESENTATIVE STAGNI
1 AN ACT
2 To 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.
6 Be 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
8 as 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,
19 accompanied by such fee as is required by R.S. 37:2809, together with evidence,
20 verified by oath and satisfactory to the board, that the applicant:
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22 (d) Has completed at least sixty hours of course work at a college or
23 university of liberal arts or science which, at the time of attendance thereof, was fully
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1 accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency. Beginning on July 1,
2 2011, each Holds applicant of licensure shall hold a baccalaureate degree from a
3 college or university approved by an accrediting agency of the United States
4 Department of Education or its successor or foreign equivalent.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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