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FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 26, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

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Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the chairman not on just this but his entire chairmanship, for getting big things done.

Mr. Speaker, I want to speak on the underlying bill, the Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act. Currently, healthcare providers are licensed by their State. If a healthcare provider travels with a team-- professional, college, high school--out of State to take care of the players that they are responsible for, they could be practicing out of the scope of their license since they are out of State.

For example, this April, when our Kentucky Wildcats go to Minneapolis for the Final Four, the physicians and healthcare people who travel with them need to be practicing within their licenses. It is clearly within the Commerce Clause for us to clarify this. It is important to do. I encourage the passage of this bill, this provision, and the overall bill.

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