New Continuing Education Requirement in Illinois
07/11/2023
Licensees must earn one hour of CE in in domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education.
Department of Financial & Professional Regulation
Chicago Office:
555 West Monroe St., 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60661
Springfield Office:
320 West Washington St., 3rd Floor
Springfield, IL 62786
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Title: Licensed Massage Therapist
Requirement: 600 hours and passing the MBLEx or NCBTMB
Renewal: 25 hours/2 years
07/11/2023
Licensees must earn one hour of CE in in domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education.
08/03/2021
Illinois House Bill 0588 was signed into law this legislative session and requires massage establishments to post a human trafficking resource notice in bathrooms located within their businesses.
03/15/2021
Effective March 1, 2021, a new rule allows all 24 hours of continuing education credits to be completed online.
11/18/2020
Personal Care Service Guidelines for businesses in Illinois have been updated for Tier 3, beginning November 20, 2020.
10/14/2020
Illinois revised its CE requirements for this renewal cycle in an emergency rule that allows all 24 hours of CE credits to be completed online.
06/08/2020
Personal Care Services Guidelines issued by the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity were recently updated.
04/17/2020
ABMP, ASCP, AHP, and ANP have summarized below how COVID-19 has impacted the licensing regulations and laws in the state of Illinois.
03/06/2020
ABMP offers members a free, one-hour sexual harassment prevention training CE to meet new Illinois continuing education requirement.
08/09/2018
Illinois has had a law in place since 2016 requiring certain types of businesses to post a notice informing the public and victims of human trafficking of telephone hotline numbers to seek help or report unlawful activity. Massage therapy establishments have now been added to the list of businesses that must post this notice. All massage therapy businesses (other than sole practitioners and some other state licensees) must now post this notice.
11/17/2017
The Rockford City Council will be meeting on Monday November 20 at 5:30 pm in the City Council Chambers, 2nd Floor City Hall, 425 East State St., Rockford IL, to address a proposed massage establishment ordinance for the city of Rockford. Click here to read the draft ordinance.
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