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House committee advances bill to let certified chiropractors and veterinarians provide animal chiropractic care
Summary
After competing testimony from veterinarians and chiropractors, the House Health Full Committee voted to advance House Bill 164 to Government Operations. The bill would create statutory certification and training requirements for providers who perform chiropractic care on animals.
The House Health Full Committee advanced House Bill 164, which would authorize chiropractic physicians and veterinarians who meet specified postgraduate training and certification standards to provide animal chiropractic care.
Supporters said the measure creates clear certification standards for practitioners who already treat animals and preserves owner choice; opponents — primarily veterinarians — said the bill removes necessary veterinary oversight and risks missed medical diagnoses that require diagnostic testing and medication.
Speaker Pat Marsh, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure would “establish educational standards, which must be met by chiropractic physicians and veterinarians who perform animal chiropractic work” and said owners “should be given a choice” whether to take animals to a veterinarian or to a certified animal chiropractor.
Veterinarian Emily Dryden, representing the Tennessee Veterinary Medical Association, said animals…
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