Reference is to the bill as introduced.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately-numbered penultimate SECTION to read:
/SECTION __. Section 40-47-705 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 40-47-705.
For purposes of this article:
(1) 'ACAOM' means
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental
Medicine.
(2)
'Acupuncture' means a form of health care developed from
traditional and modern oriental concepts for health care that
employs oriental medical techniques, treatment, and adjunctive
therapies for the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of
health and the prevention of disease. The practice of
acupuncture does not include:
(a)
'osteopathic medicine and osteopathic manipulative
treatment;
(b)
'chiropractic' or 'chiropractic practice' as defined in
Section 40-9-10; or
(c)
'physical therapy' as defined in Section 40-45-20 or
therapies allowed as part of the practice of physical
therapy.
(23)
'Auricular (ear) detoxification therapy' means the
insertion of disposable sterile acupuncture needles into the
five auricular acupuncture points stipulated by the National
Acupuncture Detoxification Association protocol for the sole
purpose of treatment of chemical dependency, detoxification, and
substance abuse.
(4)
'Auricular therapy' means the insertion of
disposable needles into and limited only to the ear, to treat a
limited number of conditions.
(35)
'Board' means the State Board of Medical Examiners.
(46)
'Committee' means the Acupuncture Advisory Committee as
established by this article as an advisory committee responsible
to the board.
(7)
'General Supervision' means that a doctor of
medicine, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, or an acupuncturist
licensed by the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners has
authorized the procedures to be performed but does not require
that a doctor of medicine, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, or
an acupuncturist be present when the procedures are
performed.
(58)
'NADA' means the National Acupuncture Detoxification
Association.
(69)
'NCAAOM' means the National Certification Commission for
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
(7)
'ACAOM' means Accreditation Commission for
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
(8)
'Auricular therapy' means the insertion of
disposable needles into and limited only to the ear, to treat a
limited number of conditions."
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.