Bill Text: NH SB594 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to certification requirements for speech pathologists and relative to the use of ultrasound or electrical physical agent modalities by occupational therapists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-09-23 - Died on Table [SB594 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2020-SB594-Introduced.html

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SB 594  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2752

06/10

 

SENATE BILL 594

 

AN ACT relative to certification requirements for speech pathologists.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. French, Dist 7; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Rep. McGuire, Merr. 29

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that licensed speech-language pathologists are exempt from the certification requirements for speech-language specialists.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2752

06/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to certification requirements for speech pathologists.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Certain Certification Requirements for Speech-language Specialists.  Amend RSA 189:14-e, II to read as follows:

II.  Speech-language pathologists licensed pursuant to RSA 326-F and 328-F shall [automatically meet] be exempt from certification requirements under this section.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.