Bill Text: NY S01961 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring a licensed massage therapist to display his or her 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S01961 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01961-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1961

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO,  MYRIE,  RAMOS -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Higher
          Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a licensed
          massage therapist to display his or her 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 sixtieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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