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Committee signals plan to move a package of 12 sunset bills; members raise questions about Massage Therapy License Board
Summary
Chair asked to move 12 sunset bills en masse; a senator asked whether the Sunset Law as drafted returns the Alabama Massage Therapy License Board to independent board status from nursing, and the chair offered to review language and meet to clarify before floor action.
The committee moved to advance a package of 12 sunset bills in a single motion, following a process used in prior years to clear multiple routine items at once.
The chair told members the next 12 bills were all sunset measures "that everyone's had" and said the committee had vetted them. A motion to move the bills in mass was made and seconded with limited discussion.
During the package discussion, a senator raised a policy detail about one of the affected agencies: the Alabama Massage Therapy License Board. The senator asked whether the Sunset Law would return the Massage Therapy Board to its own board status after it had been placed under nursing. The chair offered to meet with that member to review the bill text and noted committee staff were working with the Department of Health on related issues; he also said the committee planned to move the bills out of committee that day and that a floor amendment or substitute was possible.
The transcript segments provided record the motion to advance the package and the question about the Massage Therapy License Board, but do not include a final recorded roll call specifically resolving that board-placement question in the supplied segments.
