We have received new information from the State about massage licensing renewals. Per its notification below, DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations (DPO) will be allowing a grace period for this year's renewals, until March 31, 2017, with no late fee. This means…
Recent News and Legislative Updates
We received the following email notice from the Colorado Division of Consumer Affairs (DORA) announcing an increase in the license and license renewal fees for massage therapists in Colorado:
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As you know, Oklahoma passed its massage therapy licensing statute this past spring. The next step was for the Governor to appoint members to the Massage Advisory Board, which will advise the Cosmetology Board on issues regarding massage therapist licensing. The Governor completed the…
Michigan massage licenses must be renewed every 3 years, by October 31. Your license expiration date is stated on your license. Also, you should receive a postcard from the state approximately 3 months before your expiration date reminding you to renew and providing the website which…
For those of you who practice in Santa Cruz, we're happy to report that at its meeting on September 13, the Santa Cruz City Council decided to reconsider the proposed city ordinance regulating massage therapy. As reported in the …
The following information was emailed to our members in the Santa Cruz area on September 9, 2016:
The Santa Cruz City Council is in the final stage of considering a city ordinance that would, among other things, require that all massage therapists practicing in the city of Santa Cruz be…
In August and October of 2015 we notified all of our Georgia members via email about changes to Georgia's continuing education rules. The text of those message is below, for your reference. Again, these changes were made in 2015 and the information was emailed to members…
We recently notified you that the Oklahoma Cosmetology Board would start accepting grandfathering license applications after August 25, 2016. That is no longer the case. There is new information posted on the…
Under Oklahoma’s new massage therapy law, every massage therapist must hold a state-issued massage therapy license by May 1, 2017 in order to practice after that date. If you do not have a license by May 1, 2017, you will not be able to legally practice in Oklahoma until you get…
Two Kansas bills which proposed a state licensing requirement for massage therapists, SB 40 and HB 2123, carried over from the 2015 legislative session into the 2016 legislative session. Both bills failed in the 2016 legislative session, and there is no carryover into next year’s…