Bill Text: FL S1294 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Music Therapy

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-05-03 - Died in Rules [S1294 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1294-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                            (NP)    SR 1294
       
       
       
       By Senator Sobel
       
       
       
       
       33-01334-13                                           20131294__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing music therapy as a valid
    3         health care service.
    4  
    5         WHEREAS, music therapy is defined as the clinical and
    6  evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish
    7  individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a
    8  person who is Music Therapist–Board Certified (MT-BC) and who
    9  has completed an approved music therapy program, and
   10         WHEREAS, a person representing himself or herself as an MT
   11  BC must be board certified by the Certification Board for Music
   12  Therapists (CBMT), an independent, nonprofit corporation whose
   13  certification program is fully accredited by the National
   14  Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), and
   15         WHEREAS, the MT-BC credential has been fully accredited by
   16  the NCCA since 1986, and the American Music Therapy Association
   17  was founded in 1998 as a union of the National Association for
   18  Music Therapy and the American Association for Music Therapy,
   19  and
   20         WHEREAS, music therapy is an allied health field that
   21  offers benefits across all developmental domains and supports
   22  patients of all ages and ability levels, including, but not
   23  limited to, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly who
   24  have mental health needs, developmental and learning
   25  disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease and other aging related
   26  conditions, substance abuse problems, brain injuries, physical
   27  disabilities, and acute and chronic pain, and
   28         WHEREAS, music therapy maintains or increases the quality
   29  of life for patients and their families, alleviates stress, and
   30  works on many different levels at once to improve the condition
   31  of the patient, and
   32         WHEREAS, decades of empirical research documented in peer
   33  reviewed journals have found music therapy to be a cost
   34  effective service, NOW, THEREFORE,
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   36  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   38         That the Florida Senate recognizes music therapy as a valid
   39  health care service.
   40         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be
   41  presented to the president of the Florida Association for Music
   42  Therapy as a tangible token of the sentiments expressed in this
   43  resolution.