STATE OF NEW YORK
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6166
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CHANDLER-WATERMAN -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to removing references to
"masseur" and "masseuse"
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.
14 § 2. The opening paragraph of section 7804 of the education law, as
15 amended by chapter 230 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
16 follows:
17 To qualify for a license as a massage therapist, [masseur or
18 masseuse,] an applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:
19 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 7806 of the education law, as amended
20 by chapter 230 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
21 1. The department may issue a limited permit to practice massage ther-
22 apy as a licensed massage therapist[, masseur or masseuse] to a person
23 who has not previously held such a permit and who fulfills all except
24 the examination and citizenship requirements for a license, provided
25 however that a permit shall not be issued to a person who has failed the
26 state licensing examination.
27 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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