FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 722

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WALTON, COLEMAN, WILSON (42),

HUNTER AND JOHNSON (61) (Co-sponsors).

Read 1st time February 8, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

1678L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 191, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to EDTA chelation therapy.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 191, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 191.950, to read as follows:

191.950. Every health care professional licensed in this state shall inform patients about ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) chelation therapy as a medical option for the treatment of certain conditions, including but not limited to hardening of the arteries and coronary heart disease, the aging process, carotid artery disease and certain heart arrhythmias, diabetes, hypo- and hyperthyroidism, hypercalcemic conditions, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and peripheral neurophathy, multiple sclerosis and osteoarthritis, and heavy metal toxicity.


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