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AL SB454
Bill
Status
2/23/2010
Primary Sponsor
Rodger Smitherman
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AI Summary
SB454 - Alabama Athletic Trainers Licensure Act
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Replaces the title "Apprentice Athletic Trainer" with "Athletic Training Student" throughout the Alabama Athletic Trainers Licensure Act and expands related definitions.
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Allows persons enrolled in approved college or university athletic training education programs to serve as athletic training students under direct supervision of a licensed athletic trainer.
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Expands therapeutic treatments that licensed athletic trainers may use under physician direction, including heat, light, sound, cold, electricity, exercise, rehabilitation, and mechanical devices.
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Makes it unlawful for any person to practice or represent themselves as an athletic trainer without a valid license, with enforcement through the Alabama Board of Athletic Trainers.
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Deletes obsolete staggered expiration dates for initial board appointments that are no longer applicable and repeals Sections 34-40-7 and 34-40-16 of the Code of Alabama 1975.
Legislative Description
Athletic Trainers Licensure Act, apprentice athletic trainer replaced with athletic training student, definitions expanded, obsolete dates deleted, therapeutic treatments, license required for athletic training services, license certificate, suspension or revocation, appeals, Secs. 34-40-2, 34-40-3, 34-40-4, 34-40-5, 34-40-6, 34-40-9, 34-40-10, 34-40-11, 34-40-13, 34-40-14, 34-40-15 am'd.; Secs. 34-40-7, 34-40-16 repealed
Athletic Trainers
Last Action
Indefinitely Postponed
4/14/2010