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+type: "Bill"
+title: "MASSAGE THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the licensed profession of massage therapy"
+description: "MASSAGE THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the licensed profession of massage therapy"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 240"
+citation: "Louisiana HB 240 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Julie Emerson"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-28"
+last_action: "2022-05-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98e0108c-6c3a-4d16-ade1-eb3ebac80bdc"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241823"
+source_hash: "e4b1dfcb095f7b6d135c8deb19282853b415acd69548925a22423c1b2821dea8"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana HB 240 (2022) — MASSAGE THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the licensed profession of massage therapy
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB240 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1252153)
+2. **HB240 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1280943)
+3. **HB240 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263516)
+4. **HB240 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267523)
+5. **House Committee Amendment, #1759, COM, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1263477)
+6. **House Floor Amendment, #2167, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267142)
+7. **House Floor Amendment, #2189, Emerson, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1267237)
+8. **HB240 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1278455)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#193) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#545) — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Julie Emerson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-05-17** Effective date: 08/01/2022.
+- **2022-05-17** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 41. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-13** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-12** Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2022-05-12** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2022-05-11** Received from the Senate without amendments.
+- **2022-05-11** Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2022-05-10** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2022-05-09** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2022-05-04** Reported favorably.
+- **2022-04-11** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-07** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
+- **2022-04-06** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2022-04-04** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/06/2022.
+- **2022-04-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2022-03-29** Reported with amendments (11-0).
+- **2022-03-14** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-04** First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/4/2022.
+- **2022-02-28** Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-28** Prefiled. `filing`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98e0108c-6c3a-4d16-ade1-eb3ebac80bdc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+