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Panel reviews OPR 'miscellaneous' bill that would register massage establishments and tweak licensure rules
Summary
The committee examined a miscellaneous Office of Professional Regulation bill (referred to as H.588 in the hearing) that would create establishment registration for massage/bodywork businesses, add inspection and disclosure requirements, and make a range of profession-specific changes; Ways and Means offered a tiered fee schedule estimated to raise modest revenue.
The House Appropriations Committee on March 11 considered a multi-part bill from the Office of Professional Regulation that would change licensing and operational rules across several regulated professions and add a new registration tier for massage establishments.
Legislative counsel Tim Dublin said the bill makes several cross-cutting changes—enabling OPR to rescind licenses in certain administrative-error or compact-withdrawal cases, requiring professional regulation board members to be adults, adjusting foreign-applicant terminology, and creating limited academic dentist licensure and changes to APRN renewal documentation. Dublin also said the bill requires OPR to report on whether speech-language pathology assistants should be regulated (a Sunrise review-style report) and dissolves an advisory committee on midwifery.
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