By: Hernandez, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1732
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2025;
  April 28, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Business & Commerce; May 22, 2025, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 22, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the regulation of massage therapy.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 455.152, Occupations Code, as amended by
  Chapters 13 (S.B. 483) and 440 (H.B. 2016), Acts of the 88th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, is reenacted and amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 455.152.  INELIGIBILITY FOR LICENSE. A person is not
  eligible for a license as a massage establishment, massage school,
  massage therapist, or massage therapy instructor if the person is
  an individual and has been convicted of, entered a plea of nolo
  contendere or guilty to, or received deferred adjudication for:
               (1)  an offense under Chapter 20A, Penal Code [Section
  22.011 or 22.021 Penal Code], or Section 22.011, 22.012, 22.021,
  43.021, 43.03, 43.031, 43.04, 43.041, or 43.05, Penal Code; or
               (2)  an offense under federal law or the laws of another
  state containing elements that are substantially similar to the
  elements of an offense described by Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 2.  Section 455.251(b), Occupations Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  The commission or executive director shall revoke the
  license of a person licensed as a massage therapist or massage
  therapy instructor if:
               (1)  the person is convicted of, enters a plea of nolo
  contendere or guilty to, or receives deferred adjudication for[:
                     [(A)]  an offense described by Section 455.152
  [under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, or Section 43.021, 43.03, 43.031,
  43.04, 43.041, or 43.05, Penal Code; or
                     [(B)  an offense under federal law or the laws of
  another state containing elements that are substantially similar to
  the elements of an offense described by Paragraph (A)]; or
               (2)  the commission or executive director determines
  the person has practiced or administered massage therapy at or for a
  sexually oriented business.
         SECTION 3.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation shall
  adopt rules necessary to implement Sections 455.152 and 455.251,
  Occupations Code, as amended by this Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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