We need your in-person testimony and your written letters now to defeat this legislation and protect the access to the complementary and alternative health care you enjoy today! (Details below). The proposed restrictive bill will hurt those who seek access to alternative and complementary practitioners and their practitioners as well as the Florida economy. 

What this Bill Does

HB 843 would criminalize the unlicensed practice of anything within the proposed definition of “the practice of naturopathic medicine” regardless of whether it poses a risk of harm to the public. The definition is so broad that it includes the use of such natural therapies as “lifestyle change, natural medicines, vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements, botanical medicines, medicinal fungi, and homeopathic medicines.” Thousands of citizens practice varying forms of naturopathic health care and naturopathic services. These healers practicing within the definition of the “practice of naturopathic medicine” would potentially be criminalized if this bill becomes law.

NOTE: This bill does not include proper criminal exemptions and safe harbor language for those complementary and alternative practitioners practicing who would not be licensed Naturopathic Physicians.

MORE REASONS TO OPPOSE FL HB 843 and WORK for A SAFE HARBOR LAW

There is no constitutional basis for regulating vocations that do not pose an imminent and significant risk of harm to the public. Many complementary and alternative health care practitioners provide services that do not rise to the level of harm requiring licensure, and many states have protected these practitioners from being criminalized by passing Safe Harbor practitioner exemption laws that keep them safely in the public domain for all citizens to access as they choose. Florida has no Safe Harbor law! 

Take Action Steps:

1. Click here to email the subcommittee members to OPPOSE FL HB 843/845 because it hurts alternative healing practitioners and the clients they serve.

2. Click Here to Sign-up to Testify in Person during the public hearing on Wednesday, January 24, beginning at 8:00 am EST. You can also hand in a card available at the meeting to the employee of the Sergeant at Arms who will place your name on the list for testimony. 

3. Click Here to learn how to testify in person or send in written testimony. There will be no virtual testimony allowed at the hearing.  If you would like to register your opposition, sign-up with the link above. The employee of the Sergeant at Arms at the meeting will read your name, then if you are not present, will put your opposition onto the record. 

Tell the subcommittee members why you want them to oppose this restrictive licensing bill!

Thanks in advance for your help OPPOSING FL HB 843/835! Together we can protect our alternative healing practitioners.