Senate Bill S5787

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S5787 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1112
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6512, 6513, 6514, 6515 & 6516, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A8281

2023-S5787 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that neither the unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, nor aiding or abetting of unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, shall be deemed as the crime of unauthorized practice.

2023-S5787 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5787 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5787
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, BRISPORT, CLEARE, JACKSON, RAMOS, SEPULVEDA
   -- 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 the unauthorized or
   unlicensed practice of massage therapy

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 6512 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 644 of the laws of 1979, is amended and a new  subdi-
 vision 3 is added to read as follows:
   1. Anyone not authorized to practice under this title who practices or
 offers  to  practice  or holds [himself] THEMSELVES out as being able to
 practice in any profession in which a license is a prerequisite  to  the
 practice  of  the  acts,  or  who  practices any profession as an exempt
 person  during  the  time  when  [his]  THEIR  professional  license  is
 suspended,  revoked  or  annulled,  or  who  aids or abets an unlicensed
 person to practice a  profession,  or  who  fraudulently  sells,  files,
 furnishes,  obtains, or who attempts fraudulently to sell, file, furnish
 or obtain any diploma, license, record or permit purporting to authorize
 the practice of a profession, shall be guilty of a class E felony.
   3. NEITHER THE UNAUTHORIZED OR UNLICENSED PRACTICE OF MASSAGE  THERAPY
 UNDER  ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE OF THIS TITLE, NOR THE AIDING OR
 ABETTING OF UNAUTHORIZED OR UNLICENSED PRACTICE OF MASSAGE THERAPY UNDER
 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE OF THIS TITLE, SHALL BE  A  VIOLATION  OF
 THIS SECTION.
   §  2.  Section  6513  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3. NEITHER THE UNAUTHORIZED OR UNLICENSED PRACTICE OF MASSAGE  THERAPY
 UNDER  ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE OF THIS TITLE, NOR THE AIDING OR
 ABETTING OF UNAUTHORIZED OR UNLICENSED PRACTICE OF MASSAGE THERAPY UNDER
 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE OF THIS TITLE, SHALL BE  A  VIOLATION  OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02290-01-3
              

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