Amend HB 2644 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering existing SECTIONS 
appropriately:
	SECTION ___.  Section 455.151, Occupations Code, is amended 
by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c) and (d) to 
read as follows:
	(b)  Unless the person is exempt from the licensing 
requirement, a person may not represent that the person is a massage 
therapist, massage school, massage therapy instructor, or massage 
establishment unless the person holds an appropriate [a] license 
under this chapter.
	(c)  A person may not for compensation perform or offer to 
perform any service with a purported health benefit that involves 
physical contact with a client unless the person:
		(1)  holds an appropriate license issued under this 
chapter; or      
		(2)  is licensed or authorized under other law to 
perform the service.
	(d)  The department may issue one or more types of licenses 
not otherwise provided for by this chapter that authorize the 
license holder to perform a service described by Subsection (c).  
The department may adopt rules governing a license issued under 
this subsection.
	SECTION ___.  Section 455.155(c), Occupations Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(c)  A place of business is not required to hold a license 
under this chapter if:
		(1)  the place of business is owned by the federal 
government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state;
		(2)  at the place of business, a licensed massage 
therapist practices as a solo practitioner and:
			(A)  does not use a business name or assumed name; 
or               
			(B)  uses a business name or an assumed name and 
provides the massage therapist's full legal name or license number 
in each advertisement and each time the business name or assumed 
name appears in writing;
		(3)  at the place of business, an acupuncturist, 
athletic trainer, chiropractor, cosmetologist, midwife, nurse, 
occupational therapist, perfusionist, physical therapist, 
physician, physician assistant, podiatrist, respiratory care 
practitioner, or surgical assistant licensed or certified in this 
state employs or contracts with a licensed massage therapist to 
provide massage therapy as part of the person's practice; or
		(4)  at the place of business, a person offers to 
perform or performs massage therapy:
			(A)  for not more than 72 hours in any six-month 
period; and        
			(B)  as part of a public or charity event, the 
primary purpose of which is not to provide massage therapy. [The 
executive commissioner by rule shall provide for a fair and 
reasonable procedure to grant exemptions from the licensing 
requirements of this chapter.  The rules must provide that a person 
is exempt if the person shows that the advertising or provision of 
massage therapy services is incidental to the person's primary 
enterprise.]