SB454 Alabama 2010 Session

This bill would amend the Alabama Athletic Trainers Licensure Act to delete the title "Apprentice Athletic Trainer" and replace it with "Athletic Training Student" and to further expand certain definitions

This bill would delete the staggered expiration dates for the initial appointments to the board of athletic trainers that are currently obsolete

This bill would allow a person involved in an approved athletic training education program to serve as an athletic training student

This bill would also expand the therapeutic treatments an athletic trainer may use

This bill would also make it unlawful for a person to provide athletic training service or represent themselves to be an athletic trainer without a license

To amend Sections 34-40-2, 34-40-3, 34-40-4, 34-40-5, as amended by Act 2009-41, 2009 Regular Session (Acts 2009, p. 140), 34-40-6, 34-40-9, 34-40-10, 34-40-11, 34-40-13, 34-40-14, and 34-40-15, Code of Alabama 1975; relating to the Alabama Athletic Trainers Licensure Act; to delete the title "apprentice athletic trainer" and replace it with "athletic training student"; and to expand further certain definitions; to delete obsolete dates; to allow a person enrolled in an approved athletic training program to serve as an athletic training student; to expand therapeutic treatments an athletic trainer may use; to make it unlawful to provide athletic training services without a license; and to repeal Sections 34-40-7 and 34-40-16, Code of Alabama 1975.