---
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).