SB253 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Garlan Gudger Senator

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Massage Therapy Licensing Board temporarily under Board of Nursing; authorize Executive Director of the Board of Nursing, or designee to perform certain functions; define and provide for emergency order; clarify status of practice with a temporary permit; provide for annual meeting; require a majority vote to discipline licensee; provide further for the qualifications for licensing and the contents of an application; outcall massage therapy services and inspections of massage therapy establishments; to authorize the board, by rule, to establish and collect reasonable fees; to provide further for investigations, discipline, and fingerprinting of licensees and applicants for licensing; and to provide further for massage therapy schools.

Description

Under existing law, the existance and functioning of the Alabama Massage Therapy Licensing Board is under the temporary jurisdiction of the Board of Nursing and the Executive Director of the Board of Nursing.

This bill would authorize the Executive Director of the Board of Nursing to designate an individual to perform certain powers, duties, and functions of the Alabama Massage Therapy Licensing Board on behalf of the executive director.

This bill would define what constitutes an emergency order and provide further for other definitions.

This bill would clarify that an individual practicing massage therapy pursuant to a temporary permit issued by the board is exempt from regulation by the board; and would change the annual meeting month of the board from October to November.

This bill would require a majority vote of the membership of the board to discipline a licensee, would delete temporary or transitional provisions, and would provide further for the duties of the board.

This bill would provide further for the qualifications for licensing and the contents of an SB253 INTRODUCED application, for requirements for the provision of outcall massage therapy services, and for the inspections of massage therapy establishments.

This bill would authorize the board, by rule, to establish and collect reasonable fees.

This bill would provide further for investigations, discipline, and the fingerprinting of licensees and applicants for licensing.

This bill would provide for the issuance of an emergency order suspending the operation of a massage therapy establishment and the enforcement, hearing process, legal fees, and fines associated with an emergency order.

This bill would also provide further for massage therapy schools.

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Subjects

Occupational Licensing Boards