00 CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 195(RLS)                                                                                         
01 "An Act relating to the licensure of physical therapy assistants."                                                      
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 08.84.030(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
04  (a)  To be eligible for licensure by the board as a physical therapist or physical                                    
05 therapy assistant, an applicant, unless a graduate of a foreign school of physical                                      
06 therapy located outside the United States, shall                                                                        
07   (1)  have graduated from a school of physical therapy approved by the                                                
08 Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association [,]                                      
09 or the American Physical Therapy Association or, in the case of an applicant for                                       
10 licensure as a physical therapy assistant, have completed, to the satisfaction of the                                   
11 board, a resident course of study and professional instruction equivalent to that                                       
12 provided by a school approved by the Council on Medical Education and                                                   
13 Hospitals of the American Medical Association or the American Physical Therapy                                          
14 Association;                                                                                                           
01   (2)  pass to the satisfaction of the board an examination prepared by a                                              
02 national testing service approved by the board to determine the applicant's fitness for                                 
03 practice as a physical therapist or physical therapy assistant, or be entitled to licensure                             
04 without examination as provided in AS 08.84.060;                                                                        
05   (3)  meet qualifications for licensure established in regulations adopted                                            
06 by the board under AS 08.84.010(b).