Bill Text: NY A09259 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes massage therapists licensed in other jurisdictions to perform massage therapy demonstrations as part of an approved continuing education program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-7)
Status: (Passed) 2014-12-17 - approval memo.18 [A09259 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A09259-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9259--A I N A S S E M B L Y April 4, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee 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 authorizing massage therapists licensed in other jurisdictions to perform massage demon- strations as part of a continuing education program THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 7805 of the education law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. A MASSAGE THERAPIST LICENSED IN ANOTHER STATE OR COUNTRY FROM 4 CONDUCTING A TEACHING DEMONSTRATION OF MODALITIES AND TECHNIQUES THAT 5 ARE WITHIN THE PRACTICE OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN CONNECTION WITH A PROGRAM 6 OF CONTINUING EDUCATION THAT IS CONDUCTED BY APPROVED SPONSORS OF 7 CONTINUING EDUCATION BY THE DEPARTMENT. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14208-03-4