AB973,13,5 450.03 (1) (e) Any person lawfully practicing within the scope of a license, permit, registration, certificate, or certification granted to provide home medical oxygen under s. 450.076, to practice professional or practical nursing or nurse-midwifery under ch. 441, to practice dentistry or dental hygiene under ch. 447, to practice medicine and surgery under ch. 448, to practice optometry under ch. 449, to practice naturopathic medicine under ch. 466, or to practice veterinary medicine under ch. 89, or as otherwise provided by statute.

AB973,37 Section 37. 450.10 (3) (a) 12. of the statutes is created to read:

AB973,13,7 450.10 (3) (a) 12. A naturopathic doctor licensed under ch. 466.

AB973,38 Section 38 . 450.11 (7) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB973,13,12 450.11 (7) (b) Information communicated to a physician, naturopathic doctor, physician assistant, or advanced practice nurse prescriber in an effort to procure unlawfully a prescription drug or the administration of a prescription drug is not a privileged communication.

AB973,39 Section 39. 450.11 (8) (f) of the statutes is created to read:

AB973,13,15 450.11 (8) (f) The naturopathic medicine examining board, insofar as this section applies to naturopathic doctors.

AB973,40 Section 40. 462.04 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB973,13,25 462.04 Prescription or order required. A person who holds a license or limited X-ray machine operator permit under this chapter may not use diagnostic X-ray equipment on humans for diagnostic purposes unless authorized to do so by prescription or order of a physician licensed under s. 448.04 (1) (a), a naturopathic doctor licensed under ch. 466, a dentist licensed under s. 447.04 (1), a podiatrist licensed under s. 448.63, a chiropractor licensed under s. 446.02, an advanced practice nurse certified under s. 441.16 (2), a physician assistant licensed under s. 448.04 (1) (f), or, subject to s. 448.56 (7) (a), a physical therapist licensed under s. 448.53.

AB973,41 Section 41. Chapter 466 of the statutes is created to read:

AB973,14,2 chapter 466

AB973,14,3 naturopathic MEDICINE

AB973,14,4 466.01 Definitions. In this chapter:

AB973,14,5 (1) “Board" means the naturopathic medicine examining board.

AB973,14,6 (2) “Drug” has the meaning given in s. 450.01 (10).

AB973,14,9 (3) “Minor office procedure" includes the methods for the repair and care incidental to superficial lacerations, superficial abrasions, and superficial lesions and the removal of foreign bodies located in the superficial tissues.

AB973,14,10 (4) “Naturopathic doctor" means an individual licensed under this chapter.

AB973,14,16 (5) (a) “Naturopathic medicine” means, except as provided in par. (b), a system of primary health care for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human health conditions, injury, and disease; the promotion or restoration of health; and the support and stimulation of a patient's inherent self-healing processes through patient education and the use of naturopathic therapies and therapeutic substances, including all of the following:

AB973,14,20 1. Ordering and performing physical and laboratory examinations, for diagnostic purposes, consistent with naturopathic education and training, including diagnostic or evaluation methods, physical examinations, clinical laboratory tests, diagnostic sonography, electrocardiography, and phlebotomy.

AB973,14,21 2. Ordering diagnostic imaging studies.

AB973,14,22 3. Dispensing, administering, ordering, or performing any of the following:

AB973,14,23 a. Health education and health counseling.

AB973,15,3 b. Food, extracts of food, nutraceuticals, vitamins, amino acids, minerals, enzymes, botanical medicines, homeopathic medicines, dietary supplements, and nonprescription drug products.

AB973,15,5 c. Hot or cold hydrotherapy, naturopathic physical medicine, the use of therapeutic medical equipment, and therapeutic exercise.

AB973,15,7 d. Devices, including therapeutic devices, barrier contraception, and durable medical equipment.

AB973,15,9 e. Any other diagnostic, therapeutic, or other procedure authorized by rule under s. 466.03 (2) (a).

AB973,15,10 4. Prescribing, dispensing, and administering drugs, subject to s. 961.397.

AB973,15,11 5. Performing minor office procedures.

AB973,15,15 6. Signing and attesting to any certificates, cards, forms or other required documentation that a physician may sign, so long as it is within the naturopathic doctor's scope of practice. This subdivision does not supersede any federal or state statute, rule, or regulation.