Update on Nevada SB 412 for the licensure of Complementary and Integrative Medicine.

SB412 has been amended but still needs to be OPPOSED! Originally SB412 had a long list of complementary and alternative health care modalities that were included in the definition of complementary and integrative medicine, and today April 15, 2011, the bill was amended and the long list of modalities was deleted BUT the large broad definition still remains with criminal charges attached:

The following will be unlawful under SB412 and there are no protective amendments for unlicensed practitioners:

Sec. 11. “Complementary integrative medicine” means alternative and complementary systems of healing arts and holistic therapies, including, without limitation, homeopathy, modalities, diagnostics, treatments, procedures and protocols used to treat patients.

Sec. 17. “Healing art” means any holistic system, treatment, operation, diagnosis, prescription or practice for the ascertainment, cure, relief, palliation, adjustment or correction of any human disease, ailment, deformity, injury or unhealthy or abnormal physical or mental condition.

Given this continued absence of proper exemptions in SB412 the bill puts in criminal jeopardy thousands of unlicensed Natural Health Practitioners in Nevada, such as Herbalists, Homeopaths, Naturopaths, and Many Others.

Your help is urgently needed Now!

What is Happening : Nevada has introduced S.B. 412, a bill to mandate licensure of complementary integrative medicine. The bill would criminalize the practices of unlicensed natural health practitioners such as herbalists, homeopaths, naturopaths, and many other unlicensed complementary and alternative health care practitioners, as well as those who provide nutritional advice.. S.B. 412 passed the Senate policy committee and is on its way to the Senate Floor.

Nevada health freedom advocates are working hard to get a health freedom bill passed in their state and are proposing health freedom amendments to the authors of SB412. Your support is urgently needed to defeat this bill or properly amend it to protect natural health.

What you can do : Write emails and call Nevada Legislators. We all work together we will defeat it again.

What the Bill Does: S.B.412 authorizes a complementary integrative medicine board to license and regulate all complementary integrative medicine as defined in the bill. It would make practicing any type of complementary health a felony if not licensed. The bill has no proper exemptions for natural health and it does not protect the right of traditional naturopaths, herbalists, homeopaths, and many other natural health care practitioners to practice their vocations.

To look at the Bill : http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/SB/SB412.pdf