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Senate committee adopts narrower amendment on physical therapy scope changes after stakeholder talks
Summary
Lawmakers adopted the A2 amendment to House Bill 3824A, narrowing proposed scope-of-practice changes for physical therapists (removing vaccines and durable medical equipment and allowing rulemaking for dry needling). Committee members expressed continued disagreement but moved the amended bill to the floor.
Senator Patterson, chair of the Senate Committee on Health Care, opened discussion of House Bill 3824A, a measure proposing multiple changes to physical therapy practice law.
The committee adopted the dash A2 amendment, which removes provisions that would have allowed physical therapists to prescribe durable medical equipment and to provide vaccines, allows the Oregon Board of Physical Therapy to adopt rules permitting physical therapists to perform dry needling, and permits physical…
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