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Alabama · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 253: 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.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 253 is a bill introduced in the Alabama Senate on March 18, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: 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. Primary sponsor: Garlan Gudger (Republican). Most recent recorded action (May 14, 2025): Enacted.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Garlan GudgerPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate4

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Enacted
  2. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1166
  3. Ready to Enroll
  4. Delivered to Governor
  5. Enrolled
  6. Signature Requested
  7. Reported Out of Committee Second House
  8. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Boards, Agencies and Commissions)
  9. Third Reading in House of Origin
  10. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 831
  11. Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Boards, Agencies and Commissions
  12. Pending Committee Action in Second House (Boards, Agencies and Commissions)

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source