2025 bills / S.B. 196
S.B. 196 Physical Therapist Practice Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would add physical therapists to the legal definition of primary health care. It would also let a health insurance policy allow an insured person to choose a physical therapist as their primary care provider for a neuromusculoskeletal condition, such as a muscle, bone, or joint problem.
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Official description
- expands the definition of primary health care to include the services of physical therapists
- recognizes that a health insurance policy has discretion to allow an insured to select a physical therapist as the insured's primary care provider for a neuromusculoskeletal condition
- makes conforming and technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 196 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 196 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 7 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 11, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 14 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how