SAFE HARBOR UPDATE
Legislative 2023-2024

National Health Freedom Action (NHFA) provides support for groups working to pass Safe Harbor Practitioner Exemption bills in their states. The list below shows where NHFA has been active with state groups during the 2023-2024 legislative session. The list also shows where NHFA has been active opposing bills that would harm unlicensed practitioners of complementary and alternative healing and the ability of consumers to access the health care of their choice.  

Safe Harbor exemption laws for these unlicensed practitioners are needed to protect practitioners from being unfairly charged with practicing medicine without a license, as well as protecting consumer access to the broad range of health care and healing practitioners such as herbalists, traditional naturopaths, homeopaths, body workers, and culturally specific healing practices that are not currently licensed or registered by the states and that do not rise to the level of concern requiring state oversight, certification, registration, or licensure.

NHFA is committed to the passage of Safe Harbor Exemption bills for protecting access to independent health care practitioners who do not hold state occupational licenses and are currently practicing in the public domain.

Green Indicates that a Safe Harbor law has passed, in some form, in that state.
Blue Indicates that a state is actively working on a Safe Harbor bill.
Light Blue Indicates that a state has worked on a bill in the past but is currently inactive.
Red Indicates no one is currently working on a Safe Harbor bill.