Bill Text: IL HB1396 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Massage Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning title protection.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1396 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1396-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Massage Licensing Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 30 as follows:
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| 6 | (225 ILCS 57/30)
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| 7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2022)
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| 8 | Sec. 30. Title protection.
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| 9 | (a) Persons regulated by this Act are designated as massage | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | therapists
and
and
therefore
are exclusively entitled to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | utilize the terms "massage", "massage therapy", and
"massage | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | therapist" when advertising or printing
promotional material. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | (b) Anyone who knowingly aids and abets one or more persons | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | not authorized
to
use a
professional title regulated by this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | Act or knowingly employs persons not
authorized to use the
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| 16 | regulated professional title in the course of their employment, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | commits a
violation of this Act.
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| 18 | (c) Anyone not authorized, under the definitions of this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Act, to utilize the
term
"massage", "massage therapy", or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | "massage therapist" and who knowingly utilizes
these terms when | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | advertising
commits a violation
of this Act.
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| 22 | (d) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the use of the terms | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | "massage", "massage therapy", or "massage therapist" by a salon | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | registered under the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, Hair | ||||||
| 2 | Braiding, and Nail Technology Act of 1985, provided that the | ||||||
| 3 | salon offers massage therapy services in accordance with this | ||||||
| 4 | Act. | ||||||
| 5 | (Source: P.A. 97-514, eff. 8-23-11.)
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