TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS.

Senate Bill 168 aimed to establish a state examination for the licensure of massage therapists, to be offered by the Department of Health. This examination would serve as an additional, optional pathway for unlicensed graduates of approved massage therapy schools or students in apprenticeship programs in the state, rather than replacing national examinations. The bill specified that the state examination would not be computer adaptive. It also allowed the Department to require massage therapy instructors to submit examination questions derived from textbooks they currently use for instruction.