1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health occupations; modifying a provision of chiropractic practice;
1.3 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 148.01, subdivision 3.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 148.01, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
1.6 		Subd. 3.Inclusions. Chiropractic practice includes those noninvasive means 
1.7 	of clinical, physical, and laboratory measures and analytical x-ray of the bones of the 
1.8 	skeleton which are necessary to make a determination of the presence or absence of a 
1.9 	chiropractic condition. The practice of chiropractic may include procedures which are 
1.10 	used to prepare the patient for chiropractic adjustment or to complement the chiropractic 
1.11 	adjustment which need not be administered the same day. ~~The procedures may not be used~~ 
1.12 	~~as independent therapies or separately from chiropractic adjustment.~~ No device which 
1.13 	utilizes heat or sound shall be used in the treatment of a chiropractic condition unless it 
1.14 	has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission. No device shall be used 
1.15 	above the neck of the patient. Any chiropractor who utilizes procedures in violation of 
1.16 	this subdivision shall be guilty of unprofessional conduct and subject to disciplinary 
1.17 	procedures according to section 148.10.