CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1341

Chapter 165, Laws of 2007

60th Legislature
2007 Regular Session



MASSAGE--REGULATION



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/07

Passed by the House February 23, 2007
  Yeas 90   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 10, 2007
  Yeas 48   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1341 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


RICHARD NAFZIGER
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Chief Clerk
Approved April 21, 2007, 10:36 a.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 23, 2007







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1341
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Passed Legislature - 2007 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2007 Regular Session

By Representatives Simpson, Curtis, Ericks and Alexander

Read first time 01/17/2007.   Referred to Committee on Local Government.



     AN ACT Relating to limiting the regulation of the practice of massage by political subdivisions; amending RCW 18.108.210; creating a new section; and repealing RCW 18.108.100.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that licensed massage practitioners should be treated the same as other health professionals under Title 18 RCW and that additional registrations or licenses regulating massage or massage practitioners are not authorized.

Sec. 2   RCW 18.108.210 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 280 s 22 are each amended to read as follows:
     ((The provisions of this chapter relating to the registration and licensing of any massage business shall not be exclusive and any political subdivision of the state of Washington within whose jurisdiction the massage business is located may require any registrations or licenses, or charge any fee for the same or similar purpose; and nothing herein shall)) Nothing in this chapter limits or abridges the authority of any political subdivision to levy and collect a general and nondiscriminatory license fee levied upon all businesses, or to levy a tax based upon gross business conducted by any firm within said political subdivision.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   RCW 18.108.100 (Provisions relating to licensing of persons nonexclusive) and 1975 1st ex.s. c 280 s 11 are each repealed.


         Passed by the House February 23, 2007.
         Passed by the Senate April 10, 2007.
         Approved by the Governor April 21, 2007.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 23, 2007.