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House Bill 2696 |
House Author: Anchia et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-05 |
Senate Sponsor: West, Royce |
House Bill 2696 amends the Occupations Code to require massage establishments, massage therapy instructors, and massage therapists to have licenses, rather than certificates of registration, and transfers certain rulemaking authority from the Texas Board of Health to the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. House Bill 2696 adds provisions relating to an annual registry, criminal background checks, minimum age requirements for licensure, and prohibited conduct, establishes criminal offenses for certain violations related to performing a service or operating an establishment without a license, and raises civil penalties.