2025 Regular SessionAlabama Legislature

SB253

Legislative Summary

Massage Therapy Licensing Board temporarily under Board of Nursing; authorize Executive Director of the Board of Nursing, or designee to perform certain functions; define and provide for emergency order; clarify status of practice with a temporary permit; provide for annual meeting; require a majority vote to discipline licensee; provide further for the qualifications for licensing and the contents of an application; outcall massage therapy services and inspections of massage therapy establishments; to authorize the board, by rule, to establish and collect reasonable fees; to provide further for investigations, discipline, and fingerprinting of licensees and applicants for licensing; and to provide further for massage therapy schools.

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Bill History

3/18/2025
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal Government
Senate
3/18/2025
Pending Senate County and Municipal Government
Senate
4/2/2025
Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
Senate
4/3/2025
Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar
Senate
4/24/2025
Third Reading in House of Origin
Senate
4/24/2025
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 831
Senate
4/24/2025
Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Boards, Agencies and Commissions
House of Representatives
4/24/2025
Pending House Boards, Agencies and Commissions
House of Representatives
4/29/2025
Reported Out of Committee Second House
House of Representatives
4/29/2025
Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar
House of Representatives
5/6/2025
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1166
House of Representatives
5/6/2025
Ready to Enroll
Senate
5/6/2025
Delivered to Governor
Senate
5/6/2025
Enrolled
Senate
5/6/2025
Signature Requested
House of Representatives
5/14/2025
Enacted
Senate
5/14/2025
Enacted
Senate

Roll Call Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Roll Call 1166
5/6/2025
100
Yea
0
Nay
1
Not Voting
2
Absent
Result: PASSED
SBIR: Passed by House of Origin
4/24/2025
30
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
4
Absent
Result: PASSED
Third Reading in House of Origin
4/24/2025
30
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
4
Absent
Result: PASSED
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Roll Call 831
4/24/2025
30
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
4
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Passed(5/14/2025)
Chamber
Senate

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Enrolled
Bill Text5/6/2025169.9 KB
Introduced
Bill Text3/18/2025577.6 KB
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note1/1/1970686.7 KB
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note1/1/1970688.2 KB