2025 bills / H.B. 278
H.B. 278 Massage Therapy Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes Utah's massage therapy licensing rules, adding criminal background checks for massage therapists and establishment owners and requiring massage establishments to register with the state. It also sets identification, signage, and disclosure requirements, lets the Division of Professional Licensing inspect establishments, and sets penalties for unlawful or unprofessional conduct.
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Official description
- defines terms
- amends the licensure requirements for massage therapy
- specifies requirements for a criminal background check for an individual performing massage therapy
- specifies requirements for a massage establishment to register
- provides the circumstances under which an individual must perform massage therapy in a registered massage establishment
- provides for the expiration and renewal of licensure
- specifies identification, signage, and disclosure requirements
- creates standards for unlawful and unprofessional conduct by a massage establishment
- requires penalties for a massage establishment that engages in unlawful or unprofessional conduct
- specifies when a massage establishment can be denied registration
- specifies requirements for a criminal background check for massage establishment owners
- creates a safe harbor provision for a licensed individual renting or leasing to a sole practitioner
- allows the Division of Professional Licensing to inspect a massage establishment
- requires standards for the inspection of a registered massage establishment
- provides exemptions from licensure requirements
- schedules the repeal of provisions related to a massage assistant and massage assistant-in-training
- includes a coordination clause to coordinate enactment of provisions with S.B. 44, Professional Licensure Amendments
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 278 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 278 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 2 yes, 2 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 75 yes, 0 noHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 13, 2025 House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 28, 2025 Senate Business and Labor Committee▶ Watch
- Mar 3, 2025 Senate Business and Labor Committee▶ Watch
- 21/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Apr 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Apr 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- May 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch