FINAL BILL REPORT

                   SB 6138

                          C 154 L 96

                      Synopsis as Enacted

 

Brief Description:  Deleting mandatory permissive language for reinstatement of revoked massage practitioner licenses.

 

Sponsors:  Senator Kohl.

 

Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care

House Committee on Commerce & Labor

 

Background:  Last year legislation passed authorizing the Department of Health to auto­matically revoke the license of a massage practitioner who had been convicted of prostitution.  Revocation under these circumstances could last eight years, unless the conviction was overturned or the licensee completed a prostitution prevention and intervention program.

 

Summary:  Massage practitioners who lose their licenses because of a prostitution conviction are not given the option of participating in a prostitution prevention program as a means of getting their license reinstated.

 

The prostitution prevention program already in statute is maintained as a mechanism for changing behavior without enabling offenders who lose their massage therapy licenses to opt for the program as a short cut to regaining their licenses.

 

Votes on Final Passage:

 

Senate    48 0

House     98 0 (House amended)

Senate    48 0 (Senate concurred)

 

Effective:  June 6, 1996