SB273 SFA Stollings 2-14 #1 as amended

Baker 7816

Senator Stollings moved to amend the bill on page twenty-seven, section eight, lines eighteen through twenty-three, by striking out all of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof a new subsection, designated subsection (a), to read as follows:

(a) When patients seek treatment for any of the myriad conditions that cause pain, a health care practitioner shall consider prescribing any of the following treatment alternatives, based on the practitioner’s clinical judgment and the availability of the treatment, before starting a patient on an opioid: physical therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy, osteopathic manipulation, chronic pain management program, and chiropractic care. If the practitioner does not prescribe any of the treatment alternatives.

Adopted

Rejected