76th (2011) Session
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SB412
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Against	Dear Assembly Members, Please reject SB 412. It will be a bad law and very hard to enforce. You will destroy the Complimentary Health Field which currently brings in Millions- yes $ millions of dollars to our state. There are sales tax dollars on all the products that the complimentary health practitioners sell. There is money that the practitioners themselves spend in our economy. This bill will drive many of them to either retire, find other work, or move out of state. How can a board of 7 people possibly have enough knowledge to judge all of these different modalities? And the set up and enforcement of this law will cost hundreds of thousands $$$ in legal fees, court costs, lawyer fees (they will benefit from this law). You will destroy an entire industry by passing this law. It is time for you to vote as a Statesman, for the good of the people. I hope you will do your duty and VOTE NO ON SB 412.	Jun-02-2011
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Against	You are taking away my right to chose what I want for my body. The people pushing this bill are only watching their wallets, they do not care about my health. Kill it, kill it, kill it.	May-29-2011
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Against	In the quest to increase state revenue we must take great care not to limit the rights of free speech and the freedoms of individuals to common and useful information.	May-27-2011
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Against	What kind of police-state communist country are we becoming where everything is outlawed. Doctors don't have a clue about nutrition and vitamins. They're taught to push drugs and do surgery. If you lawmakers want the country to be sick the go ahead. If you want the people to be healthy then drop this nonsense and let us choose natural remedies instead of the toxic drugs Big Pharma wants to push down our throats. Don't take away my freedom to choose the supplements I want, to buy where I want.	May-26-2011
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Against	Why are you doing this? MD's are not God's. There are natural ways to heal, soothe people who are hurting. Don't do this.	May-25-2011
Against	Why are you doing this? MD's are not God's. There are natural ways to heal, soothe people who are hurting. Don't do this.	May-25-2011
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Against	I don't believe in all the regulations of the government. We have a head on our shoulders. Maybe you could educate instead of regulate. I believe in being able to choose for myself. Shirley	May-25-2011
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Against	Kill this Bill!!!!! It is our right to pursue alternative medicine. Big Pharma has no right to say what we use to help ourselves. Alternative medicine has been around for thousands of years for good reason, IT WORKS without being regulated !!!!	May-25-2011
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Against	This bill is agaisnt our civil rights	May-25-2011
Against	This bill threatens my freedom of choice to secure supplements of my choice as a consumer. This bill threatens my constitutional freedom of choice to participate in complimentary care. Please stop this bill from becoming law.	May-24-2011
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Against	I have been helped VASTLY more by unlicensed natural healers than by licensed doctors. Do not make these good practices into crimes. KILL THIS HORRIBLE BILL!!!!	May-24-2011
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Against	Kill the bill. Allow Nevada to continue to have freedoms that everyone in this country is entitled to.	May-24-2011
Against	I want free choice in determining alternative health options. I should be able to speak freely about my experiences. I don't want the government to regulate this for me, I prefer to do it myself.	May-24-2011
Against	kill this bill immediately!!!	May-24-2011
Against	Kill this bill	May-24-2011
Against	Just a reminder that if you added up the number of people who die on a daily basis due to medical mistakes, according to the AMA themselves...it would be the equivalent of a plane crash per day. Look up the number of people who have died from a session with a homeopath or a nutritionist.....I rest my case.	May-24-2011
Against	goverment can't take away from the people the right to choose any type of medical care, conventional or not. It goes against our freedom of choice.	May-24-2011
Against	DO NOT PASS THIS BILL	May-24-2011
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Against	This is just wrong	May-24-2011
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Against	Aren't the doctors and pharmaceutical companies killing enough people? Aren't there enough of our rights taken away from us? Please do not take my right to healthy living away from me.	May-24-2011
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Against	My choice of the practitioners I see and the supplements I take should be mine alone. I don't want the government and regulatory agencies constraining my right to choose. PLEASE SQUASH this bill.	May-24-2011
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Against	Stop this bill as we must have a choice in our health care	May-24-2011
Against	America is a free country and we should be able to continue to make our own health choices, including who we see as a practitioner and what nutritional supplements and homeopathic products we choose to purchase and use.	May-24-2011
Against	Are you totally against the people? Are you trying to be big brother? Whatever happened to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Get out of my life.	May-24-2011
Against	This bill is a travesty and another transparent attempt at complete control over every aspect healthcare.	May-24-2011
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Against	Disgraceful pandering to private interests while putting small business and alternative health practitioners out of business with the "bonus" of being phrased as legislation to protect people. Absolutely disgraceful.	May-23-2011
Against	We need more choice, not more government control.	May-23-2011
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Against	Kill this bill!	May-23-2011
Against	Kill this Bill.	May-23-2011
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Against	I turn to alternative healing methods because the formal medical community and its processes do not work for me. I get success from alternative methods and would like to continue to exercise my right to choose my healthcare provider without the profit driven Nevada medical community being involved. I do not want my alternative healthcare provider to be dragged into the sick NV system that DOESN'T WORK. People are fed up with traditional healthcare and have found a better way. Please stay out of it.	May-23-2011
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Against	This is bad law. Requiring licenses restricts competition and protects large corporations that can afford the time and cost of the licensing procedure. It also restricts my choice to go to the provider I prefer.	May-23-2011
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Against	I received a panicked FWD email regarding this bill alleging it "Would make Homeopathy, Nutritional Counseling, Energy Healing, Aromatherapy and even Spiritual Coaching a felony!" While I am a proponent for regulation in the interest of keeping the public safe, I find that spiritual/ energy healing methods to have no scientific boundaries that can be defined thus cannot be regulated. They should be treated as purely a businesses and allowed to function without a medical examiner's board. As for aromatherapy, nutritional counseling, and homeopathy, they can also be regulated under regular business laws and within already set drug laws. There is too little research and consensus to form an agreeable committee, much less a board. As a medical student, I would like these options available for the public and have my patient communicate openly with me. I'm afraid that regulating these practices can potentially eliminate some great alternatives.	May-22-2011
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Against	Pull or kill this bill which is about taking away my personal choice and power!	May-22-2011
Against	Stupid Bill...	May-22-2011
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For	This bill needs to happen to the chagrin of the many "smoke and mirrors" practitioners out there, especially here in Southern Nevada.	May-22-2011
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Against	The fact that natural supplements without medical permission is being questioned as being against the law, is a terrible blow to my own health and the health of my family. Making it a law is an affront to my own intelligence and ability to choose my aids in improving and sustaining health and well-being.	May-22-2011
Against	kill this..	May-22-2011
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Against	These are bills about personal choice. Many people get great benefit from these types of complimentary care.	May-22-2011
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Against	Who could noninvasive healing techniques be a felony? Passing this would hurt a vital piece of healing, spirituality and wellness for Nevada.	May-22-2011
Against	Please don't take away the different health care opportunities that are available to the public currently.	May-22-2011
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Against	Kill this Bill!!!!!!! Violation of our rights!	May-22-2011
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Against	I will testify about the benefits of Brain State Technologies from a first hand basis!	May-22-2011
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Against	This would be a tragic happening for the economy. It would put many people and centers out of business and do a disservice to the community.	May-22-2011
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Against	Homeopathy, Nutritional Counseling, Energy Healing, and Aromatherapy have been proven by hospitals, medical schools and scientific labs to provide complementary wellness benefits to pharmaceuticals and Western medicine techniques. It would be unconstitutional to remove my human right to choose which techniques are best for me and to limit my access to products sold my non-licensed practitioners. Regarding Spiritual Coaching -- there is a clear distinction between church and state in this country. Again, it is unconstitutional to legislate on my religious and spiritual freedoms to received spiritual guidance and coaching from whom I choose...whether licensed or not by the government.	May-22-2011
Against	My mom is now 66 and is not on any perscription drugs and doing much better than she was 20 years ago when she was participating in the Standard AMA practices. She was at one time a very sick women and not a good mom to me because she had no energy. So then I had to be raised by my grandparents because she had a lot of health problems and was pumped up w/all kinds of drugs from the AMA. All the doctors were making her worse w/all the drugs and they weren't supportive in who she was as an individual. Then she discovered the alternative forms of help and she reclaimed her life back. The AMA doctors were telling her things like, "It's all in your head." Then they found out years later what they didn't have a name for before was "Fibromyalsia." But by then, my mom already started getting relief from fibromyalsia by doing the alternative thing. So for all those who don't support the alternative health movement, beware, you are screwing w/people's confidence and choices to reclaim their power and their life back. Most of what my mom was doing to help give her relief was finding support with regular people and not in a clinical office w/framed licenses on the wall. Of course there is a balance between clinics and regular people but don't shut the regular people out just because they don't spend thousands of dollars to get a plaque on the wall.	May-22-2011
Against	As a consumer, I want to have the freedom of choice to seek out sources of health advice other than just MDs. I don't want these alternative practitioners regulated by the medical/governmental health nannies!	May-22-2011
Against	pull or kill these bills	May-22-2011
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For	I was almost became handicap but I got treated with holistic chiropractic and I survived.i could move my body as a 23 suppost to move.flexible back and neck.i was amazed that they work.holistic enviroment has help me emotional&mentally too.please do not take this away from us..it really works.Massaged too help my stiffness of all muscles&tendons.overall,they been working for all my family&friend.	May-22-2011
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Against	It is unreasonable	May-22-2011
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Against	I alone am responsible for my health and this bill will take away from freedom of choice as to how I receive treatment for health issues or concerns. No government has the right to take away my freedoms. Our bodies are made of pure energy and removing energy healing from a practitioner removes my freedom which is granted to me through the US Constitution and gained by the many thousands of lives which fought and still fight for this very freedom. Shame on you for even writing this bill.	May-22-2011
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Against	There are other ways to manage this than this bill. Please kill this bill and go back to the drawing board for something more appropriate	May-22-2011
Against	We should be allowed to choose the services we receive and are willing to pay for. These services have always been something that traditional medicine would not pay for and we must choose these and fund them ourselves. Please do not take away our rights to do this. Passage of this bill would many that most services available to the public will no longer be available or would not be available at a price one can afford.	May-22-2011
Against	It appeared during the May 11th meeting that we were being led to believe that this bill does not impact anyone but dieticians licensing. I am still someone who trusts in the word of another and hope for the same from our government. What a disappointment to see this "revised" bill. Do not pass this bill! NV is already in massive trouble. Do you want to lose more viable and voting citizens? This bill will not stop practitioners from doing what they are called to do, they will move somewhere else to do it and those who want these services will go outside the state to get it. It is just not a smart thing for NV to pass this bill.	May-22-2011
Against	This bill is so disappointing for the citizens of Nevada. It appears the regulators are not interested in what the people want. Isn't that what government is supposed to support...the people. Please pull this bill in it's entirety. There is not enough time to come up with a good place in the middle.	May-22-2011
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Against	I am in complete opposition to this bill SB412 and AB289. I am a Licensed Massage Therapist in NV, a Licensed Massage Therapist in Missouri, hold an Inactive Massage Therapist License in UT, and a Licensed Massage Practitioner in Washington (State). I am on the faculty of the Northwest Academy of Healing Arts in Tacoma and have a very good background in my field and in some other complementary integrative modalities as well. I spent 20 years in the USAF and retired in 1994 as a Lt. Colonel. I have been professionally trained as a Counselor and have a Master's Degree with a double major in Human Relations Psychology and Business Administration from Webster University in St. Louis, MO. In addition to my formal university degree training, I have invested several years and over $100,000 becoming educated as a 'bodyworker' which included training in Acupuncture, Nutrition, Massage Therapy, training as a Chiropractic Paraprofessional from Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis, MO, and a specialty of CranioSacral Therapy by the Upledger Institute in Palm Beach, FL. I'm not some uneducated and uninformed person off the street that has no idea what I am talking about! Since I am licensed by the NV State Board of Massage, the bills don't impact me severely; however, I can see hundreds of competent and well qualified individuals being put out of business and losing their livelihoods because of this bill. The loss to the public will be staggering. I can foresee that it will cause a large number of people to give up on Nevada as a place that they want to live & have already heard a few people state that if this law is passed, they will have no choice but to move to a new state and give up on Nevada as a good place to live! We have a shortage of competent medical people in this state already and many of the great ones have given up and moved away because of the high cost of liability insurance for their professions. Does our State Legislature	May-22-2011
Against	Please help in keeping America 'Land of the Free!' These bills are being introduced to further feed the greed of big pharmecuticals, and to gain more control over the people in my free speech opinion. Please Open Your Heart, and Choose Love. Thank you, Phoenix	May-21-2011
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Against	I attended a meeting on 5/18/11 to support OPPOSITION to this bill. It seems to me that the claims of innocent intention on the part of the sponsors are not entirely truthful. The bill is confusing even after several amendments have been made. Start from scratch and be straightforward in crafting the bill. Also, I don't believe that prosecuting and imprisoning felons will be without cost to the state. I looked at the fiscal impact statements, and if the scope of the bill is as 'without limitation' as its own wording states (despite the protests of the sponsors), then there is the potential for a lot of people to be accused of a felony for practicing complementary therapies that help people. Also, if they are simply wanting to change the name of the board, then choose a name that is more specifically appropriate to the type of people that will be regulated by the board. This bill is written in such a way that it feels like purposeful deception is being practiced in order to open the door for the board to claim whatever power it wants. I heard yesterday that it only applies to people who are currently licensed under 630A, and that you can't even apply for a license unless you are licensed under 630A. What about people who are NOT licensed under 630A. It does not say they will be left alone. People play with words to hide their true intentions. It feels like that is happening here. It should be easy to write a bill that is straightforward if your intentions are straightforward. Please vote NO on SB412	May-19-2011
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Against	This bill is not well thought out and will put a lot of different kinds of people including Dr Mom's out of business and send them to jail. People do not need to be licensed or regulated to this degree. People can learn health practices and share that knowledge and the legislature does not need to create a fiscal nightmare trying to regulate in this manner.	May-18-2011
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Against	Citizens should have some autonomy over there body, health and what works best for them. I agree there are a lot of "cures" that are not on the level. The nuiances of the body and maintaining optimum health are complex. We don't need Nevada legislature interfering in our decision making process on who one can talk to about nutrition, or other complimentary health modalities. I realize it is one more level of government that would bring in revenue. Find a way to cut spending rather than looking for more insane ways to involve the State in our lives.	May-18-2011
Against	This bill is too vague in it's wording and too far reaching in it's scope. As a personal trainer I would be in violation for recommending someone take a nice walk in the sun for relaxation.	May-18-2011
Against	This bill is too complex & with too broad an application. The way I read it folks sitting around their dinner table discussing ailments & their remedies could be considered practicing medicine according to Sec. 17 & silly as it sounds, they could be committing a crime because they're "unlicensed medical practitioners." Vote NO	May-18-2011
Against	this bill is destructive to my inalienable rights, as I practice the healing arts as my spiritual beliefs, not for profit	May-18-2011
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Against	This is a flagrant violation of first amendment rights, and runs roughshod over the separation of church and state. Forcing the registration of simple herbalists and lay priests is akin to the armbands and ghettos of Nazi Germany.	May-17-2011
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Against	It infringes upon a person's basic rights. It violates our rights under the First Amendment of Freedom of Religion. Honestly I dont think this bill is well thought through at all. Its pretty ridiculous and needs to be more precise if anything is passed. Pretty close to everyone practices in some form or another what you are trying to demolish. You might as well take away happiness and say that is a felony. These practices take people who are ill, sad, tired, overworked, have encountered severe trauma and help them. They help them to feel better, refreshed, alive, happy....everything good in a person's well being. Please do NOT pass this bill. It is beyond absurd.	May-17-2011
Against	The definitions for "complementary integrative medicine" are not only too vague and broad-sweeping, but they also could be potentially a severe threat to our basic First Amendment rights.	May-17-2011
Against	As a minister I would view this as a an intrusion of the state I. To my faith, I do not expect the state to follow my religion or impede it. I also work with the mankind project and this bill makes us all felons as we are a support group and work with each other	May-17-2011
Against	Will unfairly limit access to natural health practitioners- This could put people out of business- This board could be very unfair and block the practice of natural health in Nevada- limit it to a few MD doctors and homeopaths. Keep unlicensed practitioners out of this bill - they do not pose a threat to the public and do not practice medicine.	May-17-2011
Against	The State of Nevada should not be in the business of regulating Spiritual Practices. And should not be making people who practice such modalities as Reiki an ancient Spiritual Practice, Felons. The state of Nevada would be looking at very expensive costs attempting to regulate, arrest, jail and keep in jail these innocent people! I am severely opposed to this bill's passage! Sincerely, Joy Pierce	May-17-2011
Against	Dear Representatives, Along with many others in Nevada, I believe prevention is our best medicine, but when necessary I turn to alternative medicine and therapies. With the rise in cost of living, unemployment, health insurance and health care, I depend more than ever before on these modalities. Not only do they work, but they are less costly. I have grave concerns about this SB 412 shutting out unlicensed practitioners and those with small alternative practices, thus impinging upon the People's freedom to choose when it come to their health. These are my observations of this bill: 1. It is not spelled out which practitioners would be included or exempt from licensing. I STRONGLY SUPPORT A SAFE HARBOR EXEMPTION FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNLICENSED. 2. It appears too much is left to the Board, for example the power to deem a license holder of "good moral character." Is that possible, let along legal? 3. The cost of fees and mandatory licenses may be prohibitive to those with small practices and even put them out of practice and business. 3. If authorization to "prescribe and possess dangerous drugs" is one reason some homeopaths support this bill, couldn't the existing legislation be amended to reflect that needed change. Bottom line, the language of the bill is so obtuse it lends itself to interpretation at will, the Board's purview left wide open. The people of Nevada would be left powerless in it's wake, their health care choices significantly reduced. The same comment could be made about AB 289. As the people are being forced to do in the face of our current economy, would you also do your best to do more with less. Nevada is a state of proud, rugged individualist. Please honor our right to choose. Say NO to this bill, or give us a bill that we can live with that does not cost us our health and insures free choice int he future.	May-17-2011
Against	This bill seems too open-ended, and set to violate many first amendment rights. Faith healing, distance healing, Reiki, and many other forms of healing are personal choices & lifestyles, as well as tied to spiritual beliefs. This bill, as worded, does very little to protect against the harmful individuals who are causing problems. I urge you to not pass this bill.	May-17-2011
Against	This bill will cost the state revenue. Many practitioners will quit or move. Why are you trying to kill a viable small business industry. Losing jobs is not good for our citizens or state. This is bill as written will be a nightmare for healhcare practitioners and their clients.seven people cannot possibly judge all these different modalities. The administrative costs will far outweigh any monetary gain. If you want money for the State. Establish a State bank with state issued credit cards.	May-17-2011
Against	You will put a lot of Nevada residents out of work and either on welfare or unemployment if you pass this mess. THINK BEFORE YOU ACT!	May-17-2011
Against	This is bill should not include unlicensed natural health practitioners such as herbalists, and nutritional consultants- this bill focuses on physcians and was originally a homeopathic bill- it should be limited to physicians and homeopaths. Practitioners do not have "patients", nor do they prescribe nor are they involved in "medicine" which implies allopathic medicine. You could not possibly license all the many types of practitioners in a fair and open manner. You could not have an exam- as there are too many different types of practitioners to test- Charging practitioners $300 per year is outarageous- to be fair you would have to cut that in half- and not require an exam, and accept any practitioner who has completed a training program. It would be much better to exclude all unlicensed practitioners by adopting the proposed amendment from Jim Jenks. The board proposed in this law consists of 3 physicians trained in allopathic medicine- this board should consist mainly of natural health practitioners since it is about licensing these practices and should only have one allopathically trained physician, with 2 practioners- the current law does not allow for any practitioners to be on the board! This bill should die a fast death	May-17-2011
For	Dear Senate Judiciary Committee Members, My name is Richard Crawford and I am a member of [Bricklayers Local 13] in Nevada. Over the course of a given project, owners and lessees withhold up to 10% (as retention) from payments to be made. The retention withheld represents the pay that we have worked hard for. If our contractors don’t get paid, we don’t get paid. Over the last number of years, our contractors have found it increasingly difficult to collect their retention. Owners and lessees are presenting all kinds of reasons as to why they should not be required to pay our retention. Additionally, where the owner files for bankruptcy or goes out of business, the construction lender will claim that the retention is their money and will refuse to pay the retention to our companies. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PAID! Please pass AB 412 without any further changes so we have a fighting chance of getting paid when we are due in these most difficult economic times.	May-17-2011
Against	As a natural health care practicioner I recognize the need for regulation within the arena of supplements and their espoused health benefits. My concern with this bill is that the regulating board that enforces this may be incompetent and underfunded.	May-17-2011
For	Please Read into the Minuets, as in support of AB 412.. My name is Louis De Salvio and I am a member of Laborers Local 872 in Nevada. Over the course of a given project, owners and lessees withhold up to 10% (as retention) from payments to be made. The retention withheld represents the pay that we have worked hard for. If our contractors don’t get paid, we don’t get paid. Over the last number of years, our contractors have found it increasingly difficult to collect their retention. Owners and lessees are presenting all kinds of reasons as to why they should not be required to pay our retention. Additionally, where the owner files for bankruptcy or goes out of business, the construction lender will claim that the retention is their money and will refuse to pay the retention to our companies. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PAID! Please pass AB 412 without any further changes so we have a fighting chance of getting paid when we are due in these most difficult economic times.	May-17-2011
Against	My name is Mitzi Reed and I have lived in Nevada for 13 years and my husband has lived here all his life. I founded a holistic organization in 2006 that represents over 1,000 practitioners here in Las Vegas alone. I am very well connected in the holistic community and have a database of over 5,000 local people whom most are very health oriented. I am against this bill because we are already Federally regulated and it is our Constitutional right to have freedom of association. This will hurt our local economy, and will hurt the health of many people who have turned to this type of healing. Also, I come from a corporate background and now do holistic coaching and marketing and often recommend to my clients various resources that may help them and should be free to do so and they should be free to choose to accept my recommendations or not as again that is our Constitutional right to have freedom of association. If this bill passes, it will restrict our freedom of choice. It does not guarantee us our health and well being by using a state regulated service. This is a burdensome and costly measure that is not needed or wanted. I also want to state that I was appalled at the committee’s behavior on May 11th AB 289 hearing, especially Senator Schneider’s behavior. We deserve to have our concerns be heard. You work for us, and are voted in because we trust that you will vote for what the majority of the people want. We have legitimate concerns about this bill and you should be open minded to hear those concerns. I have many connections and am well respected in the holistic community and will make sure that everyone who lives in your district knows that you do not care about them. Mitzy (Mitzi) Reed P.O. BOX 50695 Henderson, NV 89016 702-547-4075 mitzisreed@gmail.com	May-16-2011
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Against	Who is backing this bill; certainly not the people!? It is the pharmaceutical companies that are driving up the cost of medicine and what doctors charge to see us. Pharmaceutical drugs have side affects which begat more drugs for those side affects and so on. Some natural ways to take care of one's self is through knowledge of your own body and what it needs to relax or heal. If massage, Reiki, herbs, or aromatherapy work, live it be. It shouldn't have to be against the law to do something natural that doesn't involve drugs. Chiropractors can and are very good at what they do and have helped me be pain free and mobile without drugs or surgery. You went on a witchhunt for chiropractors years ago and finally the good ones are getting some press. Don't go down this path with alternative medicine. Leave it alone. Let the public choose their own way on guidance to self healing.	May-15-2011
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Against	Let people make the decision for themselves. If one chooses to use an alternative- it is a CHOICE.	May-14-2011
Against	There is no money in the budget to fund another board, there is no money in the budget to incarcerate more people. Category D Felony for non-compliance. That is total overkill. What a waste of the taxpayers money and the legislatures time.	May-14-2011
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Against	Chairman Atkinson and members of the Assembly Commerce and Labor Committee. SB 412 violates a basic principle of professional licensing: The requirements to obtain a license should match the knowledge needed to practice the profession. SB 412 invents a very broadly defined field called "complementary integrative medicine" which does not actually exist as a unified profession. As written, it encompasses dozens of widely varying practices that use different methods and are taught in different ways. Most of these are not medical in nature and not taught in medical schools. They have their own training and certification systems. Yet SB412 requires all licensees to be Medical or Osteopathic Doctors and does not require them to have practitioner level training in any of the other non-medical practices covered by this license. There could be doctors licensed as MD (CIM) who have the right to practice something for which they are not qualified. There is no further standard they must meet to practice Reiki, Polarity, Qi Gong or any other alternative practice. At the same time, those who are actually trained in such things, but are not conventional doctors, are prohibited from practicing. A license from the State is an assurance, to the consumer, that the licensee is a qualified practitioner of the profession. This bill creates a misleading designation- Complementary Integrative Physician- and violates the stated purpose of this bill (Section 3-1 & 2): Sec. 3. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: 1. A person has the freedom of choice with respect to obtaining health care in this State. 2. The State is responsible for ensuring that competent persons practice alternative and complementary integrative medicine SB412 is a poor adaption of a bill from the 1980s designed to regulate one profession. It is entirely inappropriate to provide effective oversight of dozens of varied practices in 2011. The best course would be to kill this bill. If not, the definit	May-13-2011
Against	I do not agree with the criminalization of alternative health care providers. The scope of this bill is too broad, everything from wellness programs to aromatherapy to injections. It is written in a way that subjects practitioners to a wide variety of possible interpretations. It places medical doctors on the board to oversee alternatives. With conventional health care choices becoming unavailable due to cost, citizens should have the ability to seek out these alternative, mostly preventative health care choices. By taxing these practitioners, we will likely drive them out to more friendly states, such as California just over the border.	May-11-2011
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Against	Such practitioners already have boards regulating them, this is another way to waste money we do not have in this state, or this country	May-10-2011
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Against	Is this really necessary? I don't believe in doctors due to my religion. The way this bill is written if anyone (without limitation) provides another with relief from a physical or mental condition, and they are not licensed, they will become a FELON! (If you give someone aspirin and they get relief and you are not licensed you will become a felon.)	May-10-2011
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Against	As a mother of four children, I feel the responsibility to care for my children in the best way possible. I am a well educated mother with an MBA in International Finance. I am not anti-doctor or anti-medicine. However, I fully support herbal supplements, plant-based health remedies, and essential oils to keep my family healthy. We have been able to save hundreds of dollars in our family's budget by using herbs with wisdom and prudence. We now visit the doctor for well checks rather than regular sick visits. Please, vote NO on AB 289 and NO on SB412.	May-10-2011
Against	This bill will have huge costs and unintended consequences that will drive business out of the state.	May-10-2011
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Against	Re: Regulation of Integrative Medicine This is not needed. Natural health people make very little money. I use alternative health care all the time and I will have to go to Calif for it...the practioners aren't able to deal with this. This would cost our state $$$$. There will be a big fiscal impact...they won't be able to pay the fees, they will be forced to go across the border to Calif. Do you want to fill up the jails with natural health workers?	May-09-2011
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Against	We need less government, not more!	May-09-2011
For	In its current form the Bill is overly broad with vague language that overreaches the stated purpose of the Bill. The underlying intent is sound given the wider acceptance of complimentary and integrative therapies and modalities. However, for licensing Practitioners, Technicians & Assistants the Bill utterly fails to address the need for regular testing at rotating locations. Provide no insight into educational, training or experience standards. In fact it appears as those items were painted with a very broad brush and tossed in as an after thought. This is very disappointing. When & where is the public hearing & comment period? How will the Board be funded? As of this moment one has to travel to Carson City when the Board meets for its annual quorum. There is no posted curriculum or educational standards. No challenge standards. Apparently one has to make an appearance and pass an oral exam administered by the Board? SB412 will directly affect my business. I do not believe the Senate has put enough thought into this Bill.	May-08-2011
Against	More Government intervention we don't need.	May-07-2011
Against	I love natural medicine , I don't have medical insurance, see a doctor o go to hospitals is more expensive, and I won't go to traditional medicine, before the 1960 everything was natural. Go green , go natural, help this planet more.	May-07-2011
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Against	I just learned that this bill was introduced by a homeopathic doctor. I also learned that his original intent was to allow homeopaths to practice without requiring that they be an MD. This is a great intent. I feel a better way to approach this is to change the NRS for the homeopathic board as it already exists. Not to write a 47 page bill that reaches into all medical professions of alternative medicine. It might also have been a good idea to confer with other alternative health care professionals before attempting this.	May-05-2011
Against	As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from a wide variety of natural health care practitioners in Nevada. I do not support unnecessary licensure for all persons giving health related advice or using natural health care modalities. As a citizen I demand this personal freedom to choose who I speak to or go to for my personal health care.	May-04-2011
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Against	I feel this bill would take away my freedom of choice. Lets let the citizens of NV have the say over their health care. It would have a devistating effect finacially on all the independent distributors of natural based products including myself.	May-04-2011
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Against	Once again the state wants to create more regulation and spending more money and a board that is not needed. And who decides who is qualified to sit on this board. Western medicine is very closed minded as a whole. If you only have western medicine doctors on the board then all alternative medicine will be adversely effected. This bill needs to be stopped.	May-04-2011
Against	Just watched The Kings Speech, the man who changed the kings life through support and speech therapy was not credentialed, had significant life experience and provided more assistance to the King than all of the other certified therapists he had before- against the recommendations of the court, it was ultimately the KING'S CHOICE as it should be for everybody- I have known MDs that could do more damage than an alternative healer- more people die from conditions related to the treatments of the disease, than the disease itself. Would somebody please acquire some un-biased education in this matter, jeeze.	May-04-2011
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Against	I oppose SB412 as written ? it harms traditional naturopaths, herbalists, homeopaths, and many alternative health care practitioners whose professions do not require a license. It is just another thinly disguised attempt by the allopathic medical community to control forms of treatment that actually help patients but don't contribute to the economic well being of the allopathic community and their pharmaceutical partners.	May-03-2011
Against	I oppose SB412 as written ? it harms traditional naturopaths, herbalists, homeopaths, and many alternative health care practitioners whose professions do not require a license. It is just another thinly disguised attempt by the allopathic medical community to control forms of treatment that actually help patients but don't contribute to the economic well being of the allopathic community and their pharmaceutical partners.	May-03-2011
Against	“I oppose SB412 as written – it harms traditional naturopaths, herbalists, homeopaths, and many alternative health care practitioners whose professions do not require a license. It is just another thinly disguised attempt by the allopathic medical community to control forms of treatment that actually help patients but don't contribute to the economic well being of the allopathic community and their pharmaceutical partners.	May-03-2011
Against	“I oppose SB412 as written – it harms traditional naturopaths, herbalists, homeopaths, and many alternative health care practitioners whose professions do not require a license. It is just another thinly disguised attempt by the allopathic medical community to control forms of treatment that actually help patients but don't contribute to the economic well being of the allopathic community and their pharmaceutical partners.	May-03-2011
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Against	This bill is another severe infringement on my personal freedom and choices. I choose the preventative path to health and wish to have unrestricted freedom in who I consult for advice and treatment. Please give people the credit for being able to figure out whom to consult and trust on health issues with you legislating it. I STRONGLY oppose this bill.	May-03-2011
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Against	Please leave nature health care alone and allow the people to have this freedome to chose!!!	May-03-2011
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Against	This bill should be abolished. It is nonsense, and leaves people no choice on what type to care THEY THEMSELVES CAN CHOOSE. It is put together by an individual or a few who want to dominate that or a related field and eliminate their competition.	May-03-2011
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Against	I'm a very informed Consumer I want the freedom to make my own choices regarding my health. That includes what kind of health practitioners I choose what kind of Vitamins I take or who I choose to ask for health advise. We need less government intrusion into our life . one would think you get the message quit trying to take our freedom away. A good think we still can vote people out.	May-02-2011
Against	I am a cancer survivor who uses alternative methods to prevent it from coming back. This bill will be KILLING millions of people like myself and it should be criminal to take our rights away from us to CHOSE the way we want to stay HEALTHY and ALIVE! SB412: SB412 would jeopardize my access to a wide variety of natural health care practitioners, including herbalists, homeopaths, naturopaths, and many other qualified and unlicensed complementary and alterative healthcare practitioners that provide me with advice. SB412 creates a huge and comprehensive monopoly on natural health and mandates state licensure of all practitioners practicing in the area of complementary integrative medicine. The bill definitions are so broad that it includes all of natural health, and makes it a crime for thousands maybe tens of thousands of valuable practitioners to practice their healing arts, trades unless they are state licensed complementary integrative medicine practitioners. As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from a wide variety of natural health care practitioners in Nevada. I do not support unnecessary licensure for all persons giving health related advice or using natural health care modalities. As a citizen I demand this personal freedom to choose who I speak to or go to for my personal health care. SB412 would destroy THOUSANDS maybe tens of thousands of Nevada entrepreneurial natural health based businesses, taking away thousands more people informed access to, in many cases, their only readily available source of local and natural health care information. Also you will put over 100,000. est. practitioners out of business, denying them there chosen field and right to work. These people would then be left with no alternative but to go on state welfare, a huge burden for an already financially devastated state. NEVADA HEALTH SEEKERS DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR OPTIONS PROTECTED	May-02-2011
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Against	As an informed consumer. I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from a wide variety of natural health care practitioners in Nevada. I do not support unnecessary licensing for all persons giving health related advice or using natural care modalities. As a citizen I demand this personal freedom to choose who I speak to or go to for my personal health care.	May-02-2011
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Against	This bill is overly broad in its intent to take control of helpful and larely harmless modalities of care, particularly as it relates to therapeutic touch, Reiki, Qigong, massage, healing touch, and lifestyle modification. Regarding the latter, is it really necessary the giving of advice friendly persons exchange on a daily basis, matters of "faith, fresh air, sunlight, water rest and nutrition"? Not to mention that reserving these services to licenced professionals will effectively deprive many Nevadans access to these helpful and largely harmless treatments. This is also ill-timed given that Nevada is facing unprecedented unemployment, where large numbers of Nevadans have either no, or insufficient health insurance coverage.	May-02-2011
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Against	I do not agree with what you are doing...How can a honest person in AMERICA make a living these days with all these restrictions imposed on them.No one is procting or looking out for the small business owner.instead the small business owner's are getting heavily taxed in our country..while the rich people recieve & buy off all the breaks from our crooked congressman.I totally am against this bill entirely..what is it's purpose?? What good does it do for society/everyday people??? Is there any Human dignity left in our World or is it all entirely on how much we can take from someone( Money) & rip someone off by Taxing them to death & not be able to get a person basic human need's met.This billl makes me very sad & disappointed in our congressman & legistature on whom the people in Nevada voted for. Very Disappointing!!	May-02-2011
Against	STOP CONTROLLING HOLISTIC HEALING AND ALL THINGS NATURAL!!! YOU ARE A SHAME TO MOTHER EARTH! GO BE GREEDY SOMEWHERE ELSE!	May-02-2011
For	I am the Legislative Director of the American Polarity Therapy Association which represents the CIM practice of Polarity Therapy world-wide. I applaud SB412 as groundbreaking legislation for CIM practitioners and the public they serve.	May-02-2011
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Against	No i am against this bill.... It is unnecessary, i feel individuals need to do there own research before they go to any practitioner instead of giving their power away to some imaginary entity.	May-02-2011
Against	As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from a wide variety of natural health care practitioners in Nevada. I do not support unnecessary licensure for all persons giving health related advice or using natural health care modalities. As a citizen I demand this personal freedom to choose who I speak to or go to for my personal health care.	May-02-2011
Against	Please let us have control over our bodies & our health choices. We all need vitamins & supplements to keep diseases from invading our bodies. Alternative medicine is a given choice. PLEASE DO NOT PASS THIS BILL	May-02-2011
Against	Stop trying to control everything! Let people have freedom of choice. Isn't that what America is all about?	May-02-2011
Against	I am a cancer patient and need to use any and all treatments for my health.	May-02-2011
Against	As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from a wide variety of natural health care practitioners in Nevada. I do not support unnecessary licensure for all persons giving health related advice or using natural health care modalities. As a citizen I demand this personal freedom to choose who I speak to or go to for my personal health care.	May-01-2011
Against	complementary services are every perrson's right to explore. It is their body, mind and spirit. This bill needs to be drastically revisited. NV cannot afford to lose an entire industry of tax payers. Pull this bill! Thank you!	May-01-2011
Against	Will be very disgruntled if this passes.	May-01-2011
Against	Stop this bill. This is absurd.	May-01-2011
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Against	I am a cancer patient and need to utilize all and any services available for my well being!	May-01-2011
Against	I do not think this benefits our freedom of choice. Our choice to believe in what we each humanly feel comfortable with as well as in having HOPE is being challenged; averted. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion is about our own sanctuary - our human body that is an individual God-given right. Many have used integrative medicine for years which limits us from even using our "ancient remedies" that our forefathers, our ancient decent (Hawaiian culture) that is a part of me or other individuals who were raised with practices that has been used for years. An ability to assist others to not only have hope and find ways to teach and help individuals to use integrative practices or medicine that would be of their choice. THIS is taking one's right to choose. Prescription drugs have many side effects and unless you have been through this often times it is unbearable. Alternative choices (integrative medicine) does not always mean that one would eliminate their doctor's recommendation along with alternative practices/medicine. Reiki and other energy work is non-intrusive, wellness practices of one's well-being is non-intrusive...IT gives hope and more so it is something so private, yet comforting to one who is in pain or dealing with a way to heal. At a time of healing the pain, this is private --- not for the government to dictate how one should comfortably or should choose to seek medical attention. This is taking away our rights as human beings. THIS bill takes away the rights of RELIGIOUS beliefs for those who do not at all use medical doctors but utilize their remedies that have worked for them for years. It takes one's rights to choose how to take care of one's body (my personal physical body, mind and my spirit to be human.)	May-01-2011
Against	This bill would make a hundreds of spiritual based (non - denominational) businesses and individual seeking spiritual help out of business. This bill would require individuals that have practiced these beliefs for years to stop. They would now be felons. It only allows for Christian practitioners, no others. It is so broad and universal that pagan, non-Christian believers from earning a living through the practice of their beliefs. (Reiki, Energy work are all spiritual practices that this bill assaults. Please vote no on this bills.	May-01-2011
Against	These services do a great deal for all people. We need them.	May-01-2011
Against	This will put thousands Nevada entrepreneurs out of business. Reiki and EFT practitioners and reflexologists will have a very hard time getting past a board exam even though they don't use any of the dangerous substances that this bill is trying to target. Also, the wording about "good moral character" needs to be taken out, because who decides what good moral character is? Private lives have nothing to do with business. It needs to be re-written or thrown out.	May-01-2011
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Against	This bill would prevent my free access to alternative medical practitioners. If I want to check on a specific practitioner I can check out his/her credentials---we do not need the government saying who can and cannot give advice. Also, the state cannot afford to spend any more money on regulations which in the long run will have a negative impact on the health and welfare of many of its citizens. Yes, there are a few wackos, but the majority of practitioners here in Nevada are not...and the state does not have the authority to make that judgment. It violate my freedom to access needed information as well as the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The dispensation of "dangerous drugs" is already regulated by existing laws and agencies. Just wondered: was this bill a result of lobbying by the AMA and drug companies?????	May-01-2011
Against	As a citizen, voter, and taxpayer, I demand that you WITHDRAW the PROPOSED LEGISLATION IN SB412 for at least the following 3 reasons: 1- SB412 would jeopardize my access to a wide variety of natural health care practitioners, including herbalists, homeopaths, naturopaths,complementary integrative technicians such as kinesiology, aqua-stretch, aromatherapy, colon therapy, cranio-sacral therapy, healing touch therapy, dietary supplements and many other qualified and unlicensed (by the state) complementary and alterative healthcare practitioners that provide me with advice. ( These alternative health care providers already are certified by their peers in their chosen modality) 2 - SB412 creates a huge and comprehensive monopoly on natural health and mandates state licensure of all practitioners practicing in the area of complementary integrative medicine. The bill definitions are so broad that it includes all of natural health, and makes it a crime for thousands maybe tens of thousands of valuable practitioners to practice their healing arts, trades unless they are state licensed complementary integrative medicine practitioners. As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from a wide variety of natural health care practitioners in Nevada. I do not support unnecessary licensure for all persons giving health related advice or using natural health care modalities. As a citizen I demand this personal freedom to choose my own practitioners for holistic personal health care without interference from state boards and licensing committees. 3 - SB412 would destroy THOUSANDS maybe tens of thousands of Nevada entrepreneurial natural health based businesses, taking away thousands more people informed access to, in many cases, their only readily available source of local and natural health care information. Also you will put over 100,000. est. practitioners out of business, denying them there chos	May-01-2011
Against	This is still a free contry...isn't that why we're at war, aren't over there fighting for freedom. While the goverment is here trying to take those freedoms away	May-01-2011
Against	Are you trying to beat everyone upfor their creativity and honor and intelligence..stop this right now.	May-01-2011
Against	Passing this bill would close many jobs and rasie the unemployment rate even more. US Citizens have the right to visit any health/healing establishment of their choice.	May-01-2011
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Against	This is a travesty of of our (Constitutional)rights of citizens to select the health care our choice. I am vehemently and adamantly opposed to this bill. This will put many fine practitioners out of practice and make criminals of many more. This is no more than a slick trick to to put more dollars in the NV coffers.	May-01-2011
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Against	It should always be a person's choice in how they decide to heal their bodies, what modalities they choose and the persons they choose to speak to with regard to their well being. If this was passed it would definitely take away a fundamental freedom.	May-01-2011
Against	SB412 would jeopardize my access to a wide variety of natural health care practitioners, including herbalists, homeopaths, naturopaths & many other unlicensed complementary & alternative health care practitioners that provide me with advice. As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care. I want to go to my choice of practitioners. SB412 would destroy thousands of Nevada entrepreneurial natural health based businesses. Please vote this bill down. It would be detrimental to Nevadans if it were to pass.	Apr-30-2011
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Against	This bill is poorly written, showing very limited understanding of what "complimentary integrative medicine" actually is. Prior to supporting a bill such as this - I would require detailed definitions of what practices and modalities are covered. Would I, as an Ordained Minister, be prevented from prayer and meditative practices, or from hands-on-energy techniques - none of which are meant to replace medical treatment, but as a spiritual compliment? There are too many uncertainties in the language of the bill and unanswered questions as to the intent of the bill. This is government intrusion into areas and practices that are spiritual and metaphysical in nature. Smells unconstitutional to me, as it attempts to control my religious and spiritual freedoms.	Apr-30-2011
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Against	I feel this bill takes away the right for alternative care. It puts further stressors on practioners that will put many people out of work.	Apr-29-2011
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Against	"You will not find a cure for cancer under a microscope, you will find it on the dinner plate." Food, herbs, and vitamins found naturally do not harm people. Pharmaceuticals do. Pharmaceuticals will never offer a cure to any disease, all they offer is relief of symptoms and when they do "cure" a disease, it only leads to more problems since drugs were never meant to enter the human body. There needs to be better regulation and more studies done on the chemicals millions of people put into their bodies, not on natural remedies, which are not dangerous. Yes, you can overdose on vitamins and herbs, but they are not nearly as harmful as the drugs people take and natural health practitioners care more about people's health than doctors do, since they are looking to help cure diseases, not relieve symptoms through drugs they get "kick backs" from.	Apr-29-2011
Against	The bill will do nothing but create a costly, unnecessary bureaucracy that will undermine health freedom. Please oppose it.	Apr-29-2011
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Against	People who are certified in their modality has already gone through the process of being certified. This is taking our freedom away to practice without permission of the government! That is NOT the American Way. The people who are not certified will still go on doing what they do because they are not following certification rules anyway... This is a BAD bill and in a time when our economy is in a spiral you now want to take away the rights of anyone in the Alternative Health industry??? Who's idea was this? It is a bad idea and takes away the RIGHTS OF A FREE PEOPLE TO BE IN THEIR CHOSEN PROFESSION ...WE DO NOT NEED MORE GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS... why not go after people posing as MD"S or ATTORNIES with out Being lisenced..now there's a bill that makes sense. KEEP YOUR MITS OFF OUR FREEDOM TO WORK IN OUR CHOSEN FIELD...	Apr-29-2011
Against	With the current economy in Las Vegas struggling to stay above water why on earth would the Nevada legislature put a significant market out of business or at the very least make doing business prohibitive and punitive? This bill conflicts with freedom of worship--laying on of hands has been an accepted practice for centuries. It also unnecessarily restricts a large sector of business within the Las Vegas community (as well as other cities).	Apr-28-2011
Against	I am strongly opposed to this bill passing and have 3 reasons why... 1) It would severly jeopardize my freedom to a variety of naturopaths, homeopathic practitioners and any alternative health care practioner that is either licensed or unlicensed that provide care... 2)This bill would cause heartship for so many valuable practitioners to practice their healing skills, trades and a services for not haveing the funds or possible requirements that this board would be mandating in order for them to assist others in the healing arts and services.. 3)Would cause financial distress on my businesses in Nevada, by not giving the public access to natural health care information...	Apr-28-2011
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Against	As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health and the health of my family, including the right to choose from a wide variety of natural health care practioners in Nevada. I do not support unnecessary licensure for all persons giving health related advice or using health care modalities.	Apr-28-2011
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Against	This bill restricts my ability to obtain alternative health care from providers who are not recognized by the medical establishment. please vote no	Apr-26-2011
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Against	I HAVE BEEN GOING TO THE HEALTH FOOD STORE FOR A LONG TIME AND HAVE ENJOYED THE GOOD AND INFOMATIVE REMARKS THEY ALWAYS HAVE. THANKYOU	Apr-26-2011
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Against	please see comments i made under bill AB289. THANK YOU.	Apr-26-2011
Against	This bill is too vague.	Apr-26-2011
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Against	What's this really about? There are already boards for the different professions of natural medicine.	Apr-23-2011
Against	This is another stifling regulatory system. Totally unnecessary. This is the type of thing that is already killing our state and federal economies. Pure nanny-state nonsense!	Apr-22-2011
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Against	Is the public really in danger from natural medicine? What we need is protection from pharmaceutical and insurance companies.	Apr-22-2011
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Against	This will keep people from being self reliant on your own health care.	Apr-22-2011
Against	I think it was very sneaky of you to sneak this bill in.	Apr-22-2011
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Against	This bill will do nothing but create a costly, unnecessary bureaucracy that will undermine health freedom.	Apr-21-2011
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Against	This bill will shut down THOUSANDS of entrepreneurial natural health based businesses. In my small town this is my only source for local and natural health care information. Western medicine has failed me over and over again, and I know that the practice of complementary integrative medicines has saved me and helped to determine what my health issues truly are. PLEASE PLEASE don't take this away from the state of Nevada.	Apr-20-2011
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Against	I was just informed of the details of SB 412 and I urge you to vote no on this bill. I am a trained Reiki practitioner in southern Nevada. Let me outline how my services help people and how this bill would damage our community. I volunteer my services as a Reiki practitioner at The Caring Place, a non-profit organization that provides free complementary care to people whose lives are touched by cancer. In case you don't know, Reiki is a non-invasive, energy-healing technique. When people come in for the first time, I tell them that my goal is for them to have a restful and relaxing experience. I ask them to make their best effort to relax and calm themselves, and often people fall asleep during the session and feel rejuvenated and revitalized when it is finished. The reason I started volunteering my services was due to a conversation with a friend who is a participant at The Caring Place and receives regular Reiki treatments. She told me that Reiki helps her sleep better, it helps reduce her pain and helps her maintain a positive attitude as she battles with a particularly aggressive form of cancer. I have two concerns about this bill. 1. Right now organizations such as The Caring Place are able to offer lots of complimentary care services at no cost to those who are very much in need of these services. Especially for many folks diagnosed with cancer, money to pay for these kind of treatments is difficult to come by. Many have to quit their jobs while they undergo chemotherapy and have a very difficult time financing their healthcare, let alone complementary care services. If this bill were to go into effect, there is no indication how much licensing would cost and what it would require on the part of the practitioner or how that would affect the ability of organizations to provide services to those in need at little or no cost. The language in the bill is so vague about the costs of licensing and I believe that alone is reason enough to vote no. 2. It does no	Apr-19-2011
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Against	Please oppose this ridiculous bill!! It would be a bureaucratic nightmare and would undermine our health freedom.	Apr-19-2011
Against	This bill will do nothing but create a costly, unnecessary bureaucracy that will undermine our health freedom!!	Apr-19-2011
Against	This is a blatant attempt to take away the rights of people to choose how they choose to take care of their health. I can for see this board eventually implementing approved and unapproved therapies for illnesses similar to what the fda does now. This is a violation of individuals constitutional rights and their God given right to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. You would also be establishing another agency at a time when the state faces a very real fiscal crisis. I am adamantly opposed to this bill!	Apr-19-2011
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Against	Please do not support SB412. This bill would take away the rights of all citizens to access any type of alternative medicine; which includes massage therapy, craniosacral therapy (now regulated by massage), hands-on healing (such as reiki or therapeutic touch), naturopathic medicine (which encompasses wellness programs of eating, exercise, nutritonal supplementation) etc. It is very disturbing to think that the only type of healthcare available will be from allopathic medical doctors when there is already a shortage of these people, with healthcare not easily accessible. Please consider our rights to clearly make our own decisions, this bill would eliminate the ability of many to provide services which we have educated ourselves in. I have a long credential of many type of manual therapies not to mention 10 years of schooling in natural medicine healing that this bill would eleiminate me from practicing.	Apr-18-2011
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Against	I am against this bill because their are many people practicing complementary and/or alternative therapies that have no interest or desire "to prescribe or possess dangerous drugs and controlled substances". Their is no doubt that the proposed Board of Complementary Integrative Medicine would create requirements for licensing that would be inapplicable and inappropriate for many complemtary and/or alternative therapy practioners, e.g., homeopaths, naturopaths, massage therapists, herbalists, chiropractors, etc. If this bill would be applicable only to those that can already prescribe or possess dangerous drugs and controlled substances, i.e., M.D.'s and D.O.'s, then I don't see any harm in it. However, it should not encompass anyone that currently is not allowed to prescribe prescription drugs and controlled substances. Thank you.	Apr-16-2011
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Against	Do we we really need another government board - how much is that going to cost the state? So this bill will require licensing for anyone giving advice (including the clerks at Wholefoods when asked about vitamins) on health. Reiki, energy work, healing touch, nutritional advice (is this going to include mothers to their children - friends to friends?) - all of this needs to regulated by some board? Violators will get fined or jail time - really? Don't we have more pressing issues that the state government should be addressing? Please save us from this regulation nightmare - vote no, no, no!	Apr-15-2011
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Against	Don't you think we have enough people in prison for stupid laws already? OMG where is commonsense anymore? Please don't vote for this PLEASE.	Apr-15-2011
Against	Bill too broad. Gives too much power to certain doctors and takes away ordinary people's right and could even make them criminals.	Apr-14-2011
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Against	This bill is totally unacceptable and needs a great deal of amendments to make it acceptable. It is a big infringement on our rights. Please do not approve it.	Apr-13-2011
Against	Please keep ALL kinds of possible health care practices and modalities legal without needing to be liscensed.	Apr-13-2011
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Against	This bill is outrageous and interferes with my right and the rights of my fellow Nevadans to choose what method of complementary medicine we might deem beneficial to us. I demand that this bill be defeated. There is plenty of sound evidence these modalities are helpful and I believe current licensing restrictions are adequate.	Apr-13-2011
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Against	I do agree that there must be a level of competency for a person to "prescribe" a form of treatment. Where I disagree is that a blanket bill be enforced. To suggest fresh air and exercise is not dangerous to any human being where as prescribing mega supplements may be. There is such a variety of homeopathic modalities. Perhaps regulation should be treated as "punishment fitting the crime" mentality. To have it all fall under a felony is overkill. The economy is struggling enough. The carpet has already been pulled out from under small businesses, this would be ripping out the pad as well!!!	Apr-12-2011
Against	This bill seeks to target and eliminate alternative therapy practioners. MD after someone's name means "More Drugs". We must keep alternative options available.	Apr-12-2011
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Against	Fiscally Speaking this is not the time or the place for implementing new boards of regulation. This law will call for somekind of budgetary support at a time when we don't have enough in the coffers for very basic and necessary programs. It will impact jobs and companies such as VRP who pay tax and bring business to Nevada. It is unnecessary! Far more patients are impacted negatively by common over the counter medicines than are affected adversly by natural suppliments, naturopaths, etc. Licensure and AMA endorcements don't mean better care!! I know this from personal experiences, and hundreds of thousands like me who are making the move to alternative medicine share this view. This bill only beneficial to Mr. Royal and others like him who seek to limit healthy competition within the this effective and popular trend in integrative health. In addition, your constituents have a right to eat what they want to care for themselves and their families. They have the right to share their opinions and experiences. They have the right to seek the knowledge, opinions, products that they feel will benefit them. Moving to criminalize these things is simply criminal itself! SB412 encroaches on our rights as reasonable, responsible, educated people, and for some, even upon their religious views. For that reason, I feel this is in violation of our right to pursue (health) and happiness. Lastly, todays' motion to move to a "work session", was viewed to be a tactic to thin the opposition to the bill, and comments/attitude made by one Senator - one ELECTED by those he spoke down to - who had patiently waited for their protected right to speak, were unconscionable!! It was the wrong thing to do, and we will remember! Kill this bill!	Apr-11-2011
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Against	This bill takes away my choices. I am an educated consumer can determine personal care options for myself. Where is the evidence this is needed?	Apr-11-2011
Against	Does not allow educators to educate youth about health.	Apr-11-2011
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Against	Please vote against the above bill. We do not need another Board to regulate integrative medicine. It would take another freedom from us. We are smart enough to take responsibility for ourselves. Thank you for your consideration.	Apr-11-2011
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Against	For natural health therapies that are not harmful or risky to the public, it is not good to do licensure, which sets up turf battles. Better to do safe harbor legislation, which NM recently passed and 7 other states - twenty more are in process. This gives natural health practitioners exemption from the medical practice act and requires disclosure of their training.	Apr-11-2011
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Against	I am for freedom of choice to make my own decisions for my own body and health. It will harm tradition naturopaths, herbalists, homeopaths and many alternative health care practitioners whose professions do not require a license. ONLY medical doctors and dieticians can give nutritional information is ridiculous when MDs are not required to receive any nutritional education and most don't!!!! Please let us make our OWN health decisions and not one that only includes pharmaceutical drugs and pharmaceutical drug company educated doctors.....	Apr-11-2011
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Against	We do not need more regulations. Let the free market work. This bill protects monopolies, not consumers? Where is the scientific research that indicates state intervention is necessary? Thomas Cornell Registered Lobbyist, NV Libertarian Party http://www.nvclp.org	Apr-11-2011
Against	No nanny state, Let us make our own decisions, not the Medical Mafia, or the Legal Drug Cartel, this is all about Money and Power, Please defeat it!	Apr-10-2011
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Against	This bill is unnecessary and a waste of time and money for the State. This bill could put alot of small business people out of work. It is written in such a broad manner it would require every holistic health practitioner to be licensed. Why bother these people do not practice medicine and do not recommend dangerous drugs to people?	Apr-08-2011
Against	Do you all know the cost to have to run to an MD every time you need to re-new a prescription? Over $100 just for the OV. And you wonder why medical costs are so high????? The rest of us know. It is government interference and regulations like this one. Leave alternative medicine alone. I am taking care of my own osteoporosis. With my own health remedies I have gone from osteoporosis to osteopenia, according to my MD, and I am not taking prescription drugs involving a doctor and/or serious side effects. I also am paying for it all out of my own pocket as health insurance does not cover preventative treatments of this nature.	Apr-08-2011
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Against	This bill is too extreme - almost every natural remedy or counseling will need to be licensed - remedies that have been around for years and succesfully practiced without huge licensing fees. Seems like just another expansion of government at the expense of citizens.	Apr-08-2011
Against	This is not an area of government that is needed or wanted. It is just one more bureaucratic nuisance to provide fodder for lawyers.With the following exceptions: P.2 Line 3-12; P.3 Line 6-7, strike all other new matter. It is not the governments business if I want to receive annointing of oil and laying on of hands or a visit to the local shaaman to for alternate health care.	Apr-08-2011
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Against	This bill gives far too much power to "The Board" to license or certify as they deem qualified. This can be mislead and potentially dangerous for the trusting public.	Apr-04-2011

76th (2011) Session Opinions

76th (2011) Session
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