Brief (1)
Sub. for SB 593 amends a statute in the Kansas Healing Arts Act that sets out those persons who are not unlawfully practicing the healing arts. A new paragraph (q) is added to the statute to create an exception for those persons who recommend or furnish natural medicines and remedies that are not prescription only drugs or prescription only devices. An existing paragraph currently identified in the statute as paragraph (o) is moved to the beginning of the statute.
Background
Sub. for SB 593 was recommended by the Senate Committee to make it clear persons practicing one or more types of alternative and complementary health care which involve the use of homeopathic remedies are not unlawfully practicing the healing arts.
1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/bill_search.html