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HB 3450

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Joe Funkhouser and 1 co-sponsor

Creates a licensed, regulated naturopathic medical framework in Illinois with a dedicated board, standardized education, licensure, and collaboration with physicians.

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Bill Summary · HB 3450

HB 3450 — Naturopathic Medical Practice Act (Introduced 2025)

Status: In committee upon adjournment
Introduced: Feb 18–27, 2025 (filed by Rep. Terra Costa Howard; cosponsor Rep. Kevin Schmidt)
Related/Companion bills: SB 865; HB 4684

Main purpose

HB 3450 establishes a statutory framework to license and regulate naturopathic doctors in Illinois by creating the Naturopathic Medical Practice Act. The bill declares naturopathic medicine a distinct health profession, aims to increase consumer choice and help address primary care shortages, and sets standards for education, scope of practice, licensure, and discipline.

Key provisions

  • Creates the Naturopathic Medical Practice Act and the Naturopathic Medical Board (to operate within the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation) to oversee licensure, training standards, examinations, and discipline.
  • Defines terms and permissible naturopathic practices, including:
    • Diagnosis, prevention, promotion/restoration of health, and support of self-healing using naturopathic therapies.
    • Naturopathic therapies such as naturopathic physical medicine (heat, cold, light, water, soft tissue therapy, joint mobilization, therapeutic exercise, manipulation), hygiene, suggestion (health education, counseling, biofeedback), nutrition and food science, homeopathic medicine, clinical laboratory procedures, and minor office procedures (e.g., superficial laceration care, removal of superficial foreign bodies, trigger point therapy, dermal stimulation, local/topical anesthetics).
    • Clinical laboratory procedures including venipuncture, ordering/interpreting radiographic diagnostics, physiological function tests, and related screening tests (excluding major surgical excisions and endoscopy).
  • Establishes requirements for approved naturopathic medical educational programs and a competency-based professional licensing examination (to be specified by rule).
  • Licensing mechanics: title protection, license display, application/renewal/expiration processes, continuing education requirements, grounds and procedures for denial, revocation, discipline, investigations, hearings, and confidentiality rules.
  • Collaboration provisions: amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to authorize physicians to collaborate with licensed naturopathic doctors per requirements in the new Act.
  • Controlled substances and prescribing: amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act to add naturopathic doctors to the statutory meanings of “prescriber” and “prescription,” which would affect prescribing and regulation under that Act.
  • Enforcement/penalties, exemptions, and prohibited actions by licensees are included (details to be set by the Board/rules).

Who is affected

  • Prospective and current naturopathic practitioners (new licensure pathway and scope definition).
  • Physicians and other licensed health professionals (collaboration rules).
  • Patients seeking naturopathic primary-care services.
  • State agencies (Department of Financial and Professional Regulation) and educational programs that may seek Board approval.
  • Pharmacies and regulatory enforcement under the Illinois Controlled Substances Act.

Procedural and timeline notes

  • Introduced in February 2025; first reading and referrals to Rules, Health Care Licenses, Public Education, and other committees occurred March–April 2025.
  • April 11, 2025: Committee recommended “Do pass with amendments,” and bill was referred to Ways and Means.
  • As of June 28, 2025: In committee upon adjournment.
  • Synopsis indicates the bill is effective immediately (per its text).

Potential impacts / considerations

  • If enacted, the bill would create a regulated naturopathic licensure pathway and broaden who is treated as a prescriber under Illinois controlled substances law — potentially increasing access to primary-care services in underserved areas but also raising questions about education standards, integration with existing medical systems, prescriptive authority limits, and regulatory oversight details that will be fleshed out in Board rules and implementing language.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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