Assembly Bill A6757

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring a licensed massage therapist to display his or her license when practicing and the required contents of such license

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A6757 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1961
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7802 & 7804, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8192
2019-2020: S3097
2021-2022: S375

2023-A6757 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring a licensed massage therapist to display his or her license when practicing and the required contents of such license, including at a minimum the licensee's name, license number and a non-removable photograph of such licensee.

2023-A6757 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6757
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a licensed
   massage therapist to display his or her license  when  practicing  and
   the required contents of such license

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 7802 of the education law, as  amended  by  chapter
 230 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
   §  7802.  Practice  of  massage  therapy  and  use of title "masseur",
 "masseuse" or "massage therapist" or  the  term  "massage"  or  "massage
 therapy".  Only a person licensed or authorized pursuant to this chapter
 shall practice massage therapy and only a  person  licensed  under  this
 article  shall  use  the  title "masseur", "masseuse" or "massage thera-
 pist". No person,  firm,  partnership  or  corporation  claiming  to  be
 engaged  in  the  practice  of  massage  or massage therapy shall in any
 manner describe, advertise, or place any advertisement for  services  as
 defined in section seventy-eight hundred one of this article unless such
 services  are  performed  by a person licensed or authorized pursuant to
 this chapter.   A PERSON LICENSED UNDER  SECTION  SEVENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED
 FOUR  OF  THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY DISPLAY SUCH LICENSE WITHIN
 PUBLIC VIEW WHEN PRACTICING.
   § 2. Section 7804 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 closing paragraph to read as follows:
   A  LICENSE  ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL AT A MINIMUM INCLUDE
 THE LICENSEE'S NAME, LICENSE NUMBER AND A  NON-REMOVABLE  PHOTOGRAPH  OF
 SUCH LICENSEE.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04102-01-3

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