1999-2000 Bill 4233: Chiropractors, Requirements Before May Perform Spinal Manipulation

BIL:4233

TYP:General Bill GB

INB:House

IND:19990602

PSP:Jennings

SPO:Jennings, Barfield, Hayes

DDN:l:\council\bills\psd\7580ac99.doc

RBY:House

COM:Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee 27 H3M

SUB:Chiropractors, requirements before may perform spinal manipulation or adjustments

HST:

BodyDateAction DescriptionComLeg Involved

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House19990602Introduced, read first time,27 H3M

referred to Committee

Printed Versions of This Bill

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A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 40925 SO AS TO PROHIBIT A CHIROPRACTOR FROM PERFORMING A SPINAL MANIPULATION OR ADJUSTMENT UNLESS HE HAS UNDERGONE AT LEAST FIVE HUNDRED HOURS OF CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION AND AT LEAST SEVEN HUNDRED HOURS OF SUPERVISED CLINICAL TRAINING IN SPINAL MANIPULATION OR ADJUSTMENT, AND TO PROVIDE LICENSE SANCTIONS FOR VIOLATIONS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION1.The 1976 Code is amended by adding:

“Section 40925.(A)No chiropractor may perform a spinal manipulation or adjustment or permit, direct, or authorize any person under the chiropractor’s direct supervision to perform a spinal manipulation or adjustment unless the chiropractor has received a minimum of five hundred hours of classroom instruction in spinal manipulation or adjustment and a minimum of seven hundred hours of supervised clinical training in spinal manipulation or adjustment from an accredited university, medical school, or chiropractic college.

(B)The board may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew the license of a person who violates subsection (A) or may take any other disciplinary action authorized by law.

(C)For purposes of this section, ‘spinal manipulation or spinal adjustment’ means a method of skillful treatment whereby a chiropractor uses directed, brief, and sudden impulsion or leverage to move a joint of the patient’s spine beyond its normal passive range of motion but without exceeding the limits of anatomical integrity. The term does not include the orthopedic reduction of fractures and dislocations or joint mobilization in which no sudden impulsion or leverage is used and the patient’s joint is not moved beyond its normal passive range of motion.”

SECTION2.This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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