Recent News and Legislative Updates

New Idaho Law Allowing Tuition Work-Off Programs

04/01/2016

Idaho HB 519 has become law.  The new law allows Idaho massage therapy schools to create tuition work-off programs whereby students can obtain tuition credit for performing massage in the school’s clinical program.  Schools may choose to create such a tuition work-off program but they are not required to do so.  The bill requires that the program must be part of a clinical requirement or supervised massage therapy fieldwork experience for graduation, the stude

2016 Oklahoma Massage Therapist Licensing Bill

03/18/2016

Currently, Oklahoma is one of only five states in the country that does not regulate massage therapists.  Bills have been introduced in past years proposing to regulate massage therapists in Oklahoma, but none have succeeded in the legislature.  Oklahoma Senate Bill 687, introduced this legislative session, once again proposes state regulation of massage therapists in Oklahoma by a system of mandatory licensing.

Bill Would Amend Colorado Massage Licensing Law

03/15/2016

Colorado HB 1320 has been introduced in the state legislature as an attempt to address prostitution and human trafficking enterprises operating under the guise of massage therapy in the state.  If passed, the bill will allow localities to implement local regulations for massage establishments (not individuals), and would place the list of exempt modalities within the Department of Regulatory Agencies’ (DORA) rules, rather than within the state statute as is the case now.  We

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