Recent News and Legislative Updates

The attempt is ongoing to have compliance for massage therapists, instructors from schools offering massage therapy programs, and massage therapy establishment owners to submit fingerprints. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) sent a reminder this week that these entities…

ABMP notified you of House Bill 2400 (HB 2400) in February 2021. If it had passed, HB 2400 would have required statewide licensure for massage therapists in Kansas, effective at the end…

In our last email, ABMP informed you that the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (Commission) now requires a human trafficking prevention training course as a provision of license renewal beginning April 1, 2021.

However, in an April 5, 2021, email, the Commission communicated…

Mississippi House Bill 1315 (HB 1315), which was amended in committee, would have deregulated massage therapy. Thankfully, HB 1315 died in the legislature.
 
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The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) adopted new rules March 3, 2021. The changes summarized below address new consent requirements for breast massage and human trafficking prevention continuing education updates. The new rules are effective April 1, 2021.…

Mississippi House Bill 1315 (HB 1315) was introduced in January 2021 and sent to committee with no mention of massage therapy. The bill was later amended in February 2021 in the House…

The Utah legislature introduced Senate Bill 214 (SB 214) in February 2021 and Governor Cox signed the bill into law March 22, 2021.

SB 214 removes the provision that English be the sole language for the…

ABMP notified you of Senate File 1074 (SF 1074) and…

ABMP notified you of House Bill 1016 (HB 1016) in January 2021. The bill would have disbanded the Board of Massage Therapy under the Department of Health and created a new Board of Barbering, Cosmetology, and…