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A chiropractic chronology

Key developments in the proposed chiropractic college at Florida State University:

By Times Staff Writer
Published January 28, 2005

1984: The Legislature budgets $150,000 to study development of a joint program between a Florida university and National Chiropractic College. Gov. Bob Graham vetoes the money, noting that no school had requested it.

JANUARY 1996: FSU and Lincoln Chiropractic College agree to fund an endowed chair in chiropractic research at FSU.

APRIL 1999: The Legislature orders a study of the need for a chiropractic school. The study questions the need for more chiropractors in Florida but dodges the issue of whether a school should be created.

APRIL 2000: Citing the study, legislators appropriate $600,000 to plan the school. The money pays for a second study by MGT of America, setting forth how the college would work.

JUNE 2001: Lawmakers budget $1.5-million to start the college, but Gov. Jeb Bush vetoes much of the money, calling it a duplication of effort since a private chiropractic school is moving into Florida.

MARCH 11, 2004: Bush signs a bill that he later acknowledged was a political deal to make peace with legislative leaders. Among other things, the bill directs $9-million to a chiropractic school at FSU.

DECEMBER 2004: A group of educators files a lawsuit charging Bush and the Legislature with violating the state Constitution by creating a chiropractic college without approval of education policymakers. A Tallahassee surgeon, Ray Bellamy, launches an effort by doctors to kill the proposal.

JAN. 13, 2005: FSU trustees sidestep a vote and refer the question of the school to the state Board of Governors.

JAN. 27, 2005: Board of Governors votes 10-3 to deny the school.

Sources: Times research; Florida Chiropractic Association.

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