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An Act to Allow Chiropractors to Be Designated as School Health Advisors

An Act to Allow Chiropractors to Be Designated as School Health Advisors

Education
Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Senator Joseph Baldacci
Last action
2025-05-22
Official status
On motion by Senator PIERCE of Cumberland The Senate INSISTED on ACCEPTANCE of The Minority Ought to Pass As Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-74) Report and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-74) Sent down for concurrence
Effective date
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An Act to Allow Chiropractors to Be Designated as School Health Advisors

An Act to Allow Chiropractors to Be Designated as School Health Advisors Sponsor: Senator Joseph Baldacci Reference committee: Education and Cultural Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Allow Chiropractors to Be Designated as School Health Advisors Sponsor: Senator Joseph Baldacci Reference committee: Education and Cultural Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1741(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1741(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 828 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • S- ) 3EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6SENATE 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to S.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-22 House

    Speaker FECTEAU of Biddeford MOVED to INSIST . Motion of Representative FAULKINGHAM of Winter Harbor to RECEDE and CONCUR to ACCEPTANCE of the Minority Ought to Pass as Amended Report and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-74) FAILED . ROLL CALL NO. 163 (Yeas 66 - Nays 77 - Absent 8 - Excused 0) Subsequently, the House INSISTED on ACCEPTANCE of the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. ( DEAD )

  2. 2025-05-20 Senate

    On motion by Senator PIERCE of Cumberland The Senate INSISTED on ACCEPTANCE of The Minority Ought to Pass As Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-74) Report and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-74) Sent down for concurrence

  3. 2025-05-12 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-04-14 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-04-14 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-03-04 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Allow Chiropractors to Be Designated as School Health Advisors
Sponsor:
Senator Joseph Baldacci
Reference committee:
Education and Cultural Affairs
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 828
S.P. 352 In Senate, March 4, 2025
An Act to Allow Chiropractors to Be Designated as School Health
Advisors
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered
printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot.

Page 1 - 132LR1741(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §6402-A, first ¶, as amended by PL 2013, c. 78, §1, is further
3 amended to read:
4 Each school board shall appoint one or more physicians or , family or pediatric nurse
5 practitioners or chiropractic doctors licensed under Title 32, chapter 9 to act as school
6 health advisor.
7Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §6402-A, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2013, c. 78, §1, is further
8 amended to read:
93. Prohibition. A school health advisor may not treat any student examined under
10 this subchapter unless the school health advisor is also the student's personal health care
11 provider. A school health advisor that advises a school board pursuant to subsection 1 or
12 performs other functions under subsection 2 may not act outside the scope of practice of
13 the physician or , nurse practitioner or chiropractic doctor who functions as a school health
14 advisor as established by law or rule of the applicable licensing board.
15SUMMARY
16 This bill allows a school board to appoint a chiropractic doctor licensed under the
17 Maine Revised Statutes, Title 32, chapter 9 as a school health advisor.
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