CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1911

 

 

                   Chapter 182, Laws of 1991

 

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

 

 

MASSAGE PRACTITIONERS‑-LOCAL REGULATION OF STATE LICENSED PRACTITIONERS

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

 

 


Passed by the House March 20, 1991

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 15, 1991

  Yeas 48   Nays 0

 

 

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

 

 

Approved May 15, 1991 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington


       CERTIFICATE

 

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1911 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

 

 

                                     FILED         

 

 

 

                 May 15, 1991 - 11:32 a.m.

 

 

 

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  



 


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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1911

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

 

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Haugen, Wynne, Anderson, Ferguson, Basich, Cooper, Belcher, Fraser, Zellinsky, Prince and Nelson).

 

Read first time March 5, 1991.  Defining city and county licensing procedures for state licensed massage practitioners.


     AN ACT Relating to local government regulation of state licensed massage practitioners; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 35A.11 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 36.32 RCW.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) A state licensed massage practitioner seeking a city or town license to operate a massage business must provide verification of his or her state massage license as provided for in RCW 18.108.030.

     (2) The city or town may charge a licensing or operating fee, but the fee charged a state licensed massage practitioner shall not exceed the licensing or operating fee imposed on similar health care providers, such as physical therapists or occupational therapists, operating within the same city or town.

     (3) A state licensed massage practitioner is not subject to additional licensing requirements not currently imposed on similar health care providers, such as physical therapists or occupational therapists.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 35A.11 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) A state licensed massage practitioner seeking a city license to operate a massage business must provide verification of his or her state massage license as provided for in RCW 18.108.030.

     (2) The city may charge a licensing or operating fee, but the fee charged a state licensed massage practitioner shall not exceed the licensing or operating fee imposed on similar health care providers, such as physical therapists or occupational therapists, operating within the same city.

     (3) A state licensed massage practitioner is not subject to additional licensing requirements not currently imposed on similar health care providers, such as physical therapists or occupational therapists.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 36.32 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) A state licensed massage practitioner seeking a county license to operate a massage business must provide verification of his or her state massage license as provided for in RCW 18.108.030.

     (2) The county may charge a licensing or operating fee, but the fee charged a state licensed massage practitioner shall not exceed the licensing or operating fee imposed on similar health care providers, such as physical therapists or occupational therapists, operating within the same county.

     (3) A state licensed massage practitioner is not subject to additional licensing requirements not currently imposed on similar health care providers, such as physical therapists or occupational therapists.


     Passed the House March 20, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 15, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 15, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 15, 1991.