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Committee tables interstate massage-therapy compact amid disputes over training, grandfathering and trafficking risks
Summary
Lawmakers debated House Bill 232, an interstate massage-therapy compact that would raise minimum training to 625 hours and create a multistate license; regulators warned revised language lowering standards could facilitate trafficking, practitioners raised concerns about grandfathering and added training costs, and the committee voted unanimously to table the bill for further stakeholder negotiations.
Representative Silcox introduced House Bill 232 as an interstate compact for massage therapists intended to expand public access to services, align Georgia with other states, support military families, and increase the statutory minimum training to 625 hours. He said the compact would be the 23rd of its kind and would bring Georgia closer to full activation of the multistate licensing framework.
Mylene Petrine, identified to the committee as the director of legal and regulatory affairs for the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards, said the federation helped draft the original compact…
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