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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB2199 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Rep. Tony M. McCombie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Massage Therapy Practice Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning title protection. |
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| | HB2199 | | LRB104 11669 AAS 21758 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Massage Therapy Practice Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 30 as follows:
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| 6 | | (225 ILCS 57/30) |
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) |
| 8 | | Sec. 30. Title protection. |
| 9 | | (a) Persons regulated by this Act are designated as |
| 10 | | massage therapists and and therefore are exclusively entitled |
| 11 | | to utilize the terms "massage", "massage therapy", and |
| 12 | | "massage therapist" when advertising or printing promotional |
| 13 | | material. |
| 14 | | (b) Anyone who knowingly aids and abets one or more |
| 15 | | persons not authorized to use a professional title regulated |
| 16 | | by this Act or knowingly employs persons not authorized to use |
| 17 | | the regulated professional title in the course of their |
| 18 | | employment, commits a violation of this Act. |
| 19 | | (c) Anyone not authorized, under the definitions of this |
| 20 | | Act, to utilize the term "massage", "massage therapy", or |
| 21 | | "massage therapist" and who knowingly utilizes these terms |
| 22 | | when advertising commits a violation of this Act. |
| 23 | | (d) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the use of the terms |