An Act To Exempt Chiropractic Assistants from Being Required To Hold Licenses as Radiographers, Nuclear Medicine Technologists or Radiation Therapists
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §9854, sub-§3, ¶C, as amended by PL 2005, c. 166, §1, is further amended to read:
C. A resident physician or a student enrolled in and attending a school or college of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, podiatry, dentistry or radiologic technology or an individual who is concurrently obtaining the education and clinical training required by the board by rule who applies ionizing radiation to a human being while under the supervision of a licensed practitioner; or
Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §9854, sub-§3, ¶D, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 524, is amended to read:
D. Any person serving in the United States Armed Services Forces or public health service or employed by the Veterans' Veterans Administration or other federal agency performing his that person's official duties, provided that as long as the duties are limited to that service or employment . ; or
Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §9854, sub-§3, ¶E is enacted to read:
E. A chiropractic assistant licensed under chapter 9.
SUMMARY
Under current law, dental hygienists are not required to be licensed under the laws governing radiography to take x-rays. This bill provides the same exemption to chiropractic assistants.