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Senate committee advances bill to let Health Department track massage-parlor workers
Summary
The Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee passed House Bill 1440, an agency bill that would allow the Arkansas Department of Health to create a registry of people working in massage therapy establishments to identify license status and ownership, a measure sponsors said is intended to help track suspected human-trafficking actors.
House Bill 1440 would let the Arkansas Department of Health compile a registry identifying who works in massage therapy establishments, whether they hold licenses and who owns or operates the businesses, sponsors told the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee.
Supporters said the change is aimed at improving the department’s ability to follow “bad actors” who move between locations and at reducing human trafficking within the industry. Representative Mary…
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