TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House of Representative has approved a bill that would enable chiropractors to sign off on student athletes returning to a sport after a head injury.

The Kansas City Star reports that the current law allows chiropractors to perform student athletes’ physicals before a sports season and to diagnose concussions on the field. However, it requires that a medical doctor evaluate and sign off before a student athlete can return to a sport after a head injury.

The bill passed 73-51, but prompted an intense debate about whether chiropractors have sufficient expertise to make those decisions.

The Kansas Chiropractors Association backs the bill and the Kansas Medical Society and other physicians’ groups oppose it.

The House reconsidered the chiropractor measure Tuesday and reapproved it 70-53, sending it to the Senate.