Relates to requiring a licensed massage therapist to display such licensed massage therapist's 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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1271--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, MYRIE, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher
Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a licensed
massage therapist to display such licensed massage therapist's 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:
1 Section 1. Section 7802 of the education law, as amended by chapter
2 230 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 7802. Practice of massage therapy and use of title "masseur",
4 "masseuse" or "massage therapist" or the term "massage" or "massage
5 therapy". Only a person licensed or authorized pursuant to this chapter
6 shall practice massage therapy and only a person licensed under this
7 article shall use the title "masseur", "masseuse" or "massage thera-
8 pist". No person, firm, partnership or corporation claiming to be
9 engaged in the practice of massage or massage therapy shall in any
10 manner describe, advertise, or place any advertisement for services as
11 defined in section seventy-eight hundred one of this article unless such
12 services are performed by a person licensed or authorized pursuant to
13 this chapter. A person licensed under section seventy-eight hundred
14 four of this article shall conspicuously display such license within
15 public view when practicing.
16 § 2. Section 7804 of the education law is amended by adding a new
17 closing paragraph to read as follows:
18 A license issued pursuant to this section shall at a minimum include
19 the licensee's name, license number and a non-removable photograph of
20 such licensee.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
22 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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