SB350 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Garlan Gudger Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to the practice of Massage Therapy; to add Chapter 43A to Title 34 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to create the State Board of Licensure for Massage Therapists in the office of the Secretary of State; to provide for the membership of the new board and duties of the Secretary of State and that board; to provide for the transfer of the powers, duties, rights, records, and property of the Alabama Board of Massage Therapy to the State Board of Licensure for Massage Therapists and the Chief Examiner of Public Accounts temporarily during the transition; to preserve existing regulatory law; to extend the expiration date of licenses issued by the former board until the membership of the new board is established; to repeal Chapter 43 of Title 34, Code of Alabama 1975, providing for the Alabama Board of Massage Therapy; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022.

Description

This bill would create the State Board of Licensure for Massage Therapists in the office of the Secretary of State and would provide for the transfer of certain records and property to the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts on a temporary basis and then, after the transition, all powers, duties, rights, records, and property to the State Board of Licensure for Massage Therapists.

This bill would preserve existing regulatory law and would extend the expiration date of licenses issued by the former board until the membership of the new board is established.

This bill would also terminate the Alabama Board of Massage Therapy.

Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

SB350 INTRODUCED The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

State Board of Licensure for Massage Therapists, created in office of Secretary of State