Tuesday, October 4, 2011

California SB 543 is Signed Into Law



It's official.  Good ol' Gov. Jerry Brown couldn't sign this bill fast enough to clear off some space on his desk.  In a message from the California Physical Therapy Association:

On Monday October 3, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 543 a bill that prevents the Physical Therapy Board of California from enforcing the law pertaining to physical therapists that are employed by medical, chiropractic and podiatric corporations.

The impact: POPTS will continue in CA without flinching until 2013.  Then a sunset provision takes effect and this bill will have to be re-heard.   Unless Medicare breaks out some sweeping changes in the federal law, this issue (as far as the PT Board is concerned) is now very much a non issue.

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