Chiropractors say lawmakers skirted constitutional rules in passing new law.
Published: Sep. 26, 2024, 4:10 p.m.COLUMBUS, Ohio – The state’s chiropractors want to make a slight adjustment. Not to the neck or back, but to Ohio’s public records laws.
In both 2019 and 2020, state lawmakers narrowed the ability of chiropractors and other health care providers to solicit car crash victims. The new rules required public offices to redact the phone numbers of crash victims in response to public records requests. And providers were required to wait at least 30 days before contacting these would-be patients, and even then only via the U.S. Postal Service.
The Ohio Constitution states that “no bill shall contain more than one subject.” It’s designed to prevent logrolling, where lawmakers pass bills by cramming in unrelated ideas to win votes. But the rule is,That’s why state attorneys told the Supreme Court the case presents significant implications for lawmaking in Ohio. The lower court’s ruling, they said, creates a “powerful tool” for judges to thwart state laws.
The chiropractors – Allied Health & Chiropractic, First Choice Chiropractic, Prestige Chiropractic & Injury, among others – say that do-nothing amendments shouldn’t be allowed to spice up and “cure” fundamentally unconstitutional legislation. They asked the Supreme Court to refrain from taking the case and let the lower court’s opinion stand.
A unanimous panel of judges from the Cuyahoga-based Eighth Appellate District noted in an opinion that a standalone bill limiting chiropractors’ solicitations died in the Senate at the time. Thus, there’s a strong suggestion that the concept was inserted into the state budget for “tactical reasons,” which is the “very evil the one-subject rule was designed to prevent.
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