Public Act 093-0908
 
HB5891 Enrolled LRB093 17943 AMC 43626 b

    AN ACT concerning professional regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Massage Licensing Act is amended by changing
Sections 15 and 20 as follows:
 
    (225 ILCS 57/15)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2012)
    Sec. 15. Licensure requirements.
    (a) Beginning January 1, 2005, persons engaged in massage
for compensation must be licensed by the Department. The
Department shall issue a license to an individual who meets all
of the following requirements:
        (1) The applicant has applied in writing on the
    prescribed forms and has paid the required fees.
        (2) The applicant is at least 18 years of age and of
    good moral character. In determining good moral character,
    the Department may take into consideration conviction of
    any crime under the laws of the United States or any state
    or territory thereof that is a felony or a misdemeanor or
    any crime that is directly related to the practice of the
    profession. Such a conviction shall not operate
    automatically as a complete bar to a license, except in the
    case of any conviction for prostitution, rape, or sexual
    misconduct, or where the applicant is a registered sex
    offender.
        (3) The applicant has met one of the following
    requirements:
            (A) has successfully completed the curriculum or
        curriculums of one or more massage therapy schools
        approved by the Department that require a minimum of
        500 hours and has passed a competency examination
        approved by the Department;
            (B) holds a current license from another
        jurisdiction having licensure requirements that meet
        or exceed those defined within this Act; or
            (C) has moved to Illinois from a jurisdiction with
        no licensure requirement and has provided
        documentation that he or she has successfully passed
        the National Certification Board of Therapeutic
        Massage and Bodywork's examination or another massage
        therapist certifying examination approved by the
        Department and maintains current certification.
    (b) Each applicant for licensure as a massage therapist
shall have his or her fingerprints submitted to the Department
of State Police in an electronic format that complies with the
form and manner for requesting and furnishing criminal history
record information as prescribed by the Department of State
Police. These fingerprints shall be checked against the
Department of State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation
criminal history record databases now and hereafter filed. The
Department of State Police shall charge applicants a fee for
conducting the criminal history records check, which shall be
deposited into the State Police Services Fund and shall not
exceed the actual cost of the records check. The Department of
State Police shall furnish, pursuant to positive
identification, records of Illinois convictions to the
Department. The Department may require applicants to pay a
separate fingerprinting fee, either to the Department or to a
vendor. The Department, in its discretion, may allow an
applicant who does not have reasonable access to a designated
vendor to provide his or her fingerprints in an alternative
manner. The Department may adopt any rules necessary to
implement this Section.
(Source: P.A. 92-860, eff. 6-1-03; 93-524, eff. 8-12-03.)
 
    (225 ILCS 57/20)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2012)
    Sec. 20. Grandfathering provision.
    (a) For a period of one year after the effective date of
the rules adopted under this Act, the Department may issue a
license to an individual who, in addition to meeting the
requirements set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection
(a) and subsection (b) of Section 15, produces proof that he or
she has met at least one of the following requirements before
the effective date of this Act:
        (1) has been an active member, for a period of at least
    one year prior to the application for licensure, of a
    national professional massage therapy organization
    established prior to the year 2000, which offers
    professional liability insurance and a code of ethics;
        (2) has passed the National Certification Exam of
    Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and has kept his or her
    certification current;
        (3) has practiced massage therapy an average of at
    least 10 hours per week for at least 10 years; or
        (4) has practiced massage therapy an average of at
    least 10 hours per week for at least one year prior to the
    effective date of this Act and has completed at least 100
    hours of formal training in massage therapy.
    (b) An applicant who can show proof of having engaged in
the practice of massage therapy for at least 10 hours per week
for a minimum of one year prior to the effective date of this
Act and has less than 100 hours of formal training or has been
practicing for less than one year with 100 hours of formal
training must complete at least 100 additional hours of formal
training consisting of at least 25 hours in anatomy and
physiology by January 1, 2005.
    (c) An applicant who has training from another state or
country may qualify for a license under subsection (a) by
showing proof of meeting the requirements of that state or
country and demonstrating that those requirements are
substantially the same as the requirements in this Section.
    (d) For purposes of this Section, "formal training" means a
massage therapy curriculum approved by the Illinois State Board
of Education or the Illinois Board of Higher Education or
course work provided by continuing education sponsors approved
by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 92-860, eff. 6-1-03; 93-524, eff. 8-12-03.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/11/2004