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Committee approves bill to expand and rename acupuncture board to regulate naturopathic medicine
Summary
SB117 would merge naturopathic physician regulation into the existing acupuncture board to create the Arkansas State Board of Natural Medicine; sponsors said the bill clarifies scope and excludes high-velocity spinal manipulations. The committee passed the bill as amended despite opposition from the Arkansas Medical Society.
Sponsor described SB117 as a bill to add naturopathic physicians to an existing regulatory board and to clarify scope and definitions for natural-medicine modalities. The measure would rename the acupuncture board to the Arkansas State Board of Natural Medicine and add definitions such as "electromagnetism" and "naturopathic physical medicine," while…
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