{"id":24962,"date":"2016-03-31T22:27:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-house-takes-time-out-for-yoga\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T22:27:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:27:51","slug":"alaska-house-takes-time-out-for-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-house-takes-time-out-for-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska House takes time out for yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska House postponed consideration of a foster care reform bill on Thursday morning but still found time for a little yoga.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 305, by Rep. Lynn Gattis, R-Wasilla, exempts the instructors of yoga, karate, Zumba and other recreational activities from certification by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education.<\/p>\n<p>While state-run boards license manicurists, barbers, physicians and dozens of other careers, Gattis said it didn\u2019t make sense for the commission \u2500 in charge of licensing educators \u2500 to force yoga teachers to be licensed like school teachers are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareers like dental examiners, acupuncturists, barbers, and hairdressers will still require professional licenses and state regulation,\u201d Gattis said in a statement. \u201cThis bill simply gets ACPE out of the business of regulating non-career oriented activities that are not already regulated by statute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed by a 38-0 vote (two members absent) and now goes to the Senate for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The House and Senate are each scheduled to hold sessions tomorrow morning. On the House\u2019s agenda will be HB 27, which was originally scheduled for today\u2019s session but postponed one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska House postponed consideration of a foster care reform bill on Thursday morning but still found time for a little yoga. House Bill 305, by Rep. Lynn Gattis, R-Wasilla, exempts the instructors of yoga, karate, Zumba and other recreational activities from certification by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education. While state-run boards license manicurists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}