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Bill	Massage therapy.	Existing law, until January 1, 2015, provides for the voluntary certification of massage practitioners and massage therapists by the California Massage Therapy Council. Existing law specifies the requirements for the council to issue to an applicant a certificate as a massage practitioner or massage therapist. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose certain requirements on massage establishments or businesses that are the sole proprietorship of an individual certified pursuant to existing state law or that employ or use only persons who are so certified. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to, among other things, adopt reasonable health and safety requirements, as specified, pertaining to those massage establishments or businesses, and to require an applicant for a business license to operate a massage business or establishment to fill out an application that requests relevant information, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1147	California AB 1147 (20132014)	bill	Massage therapy.	enacted	Bonilla	16	58	10	2013-02-22	2014-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/c8840d6e-91b5-4eea-9ecc-74b8082ba338	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1147	7cf3c73abd90e754a67b0295680d7687e032b27ca8b0de89f9be3cf34ab372d8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1147 (20132014) — Massage therapy.

Existing law, until January 1, 2015, provides for the voluntary certification of massage practitioners and massage therapists by the California Massage Therapy Council. Existing law specifies the requirements for the council to issue to an applicant a certificate as a massage practitioner or massage therapist. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose certain requirements on massage establishments or businesses that are the sole proprietorship of an individual certified pursuant to existing state law or that employ or use only persons who are so certified. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to, among other things, adopt reasonable health and safety requirements, as specified, pertaining to those massage establishments or businesses, and to require an applicant for a business license to operate a massage business or establishment to fill out an application that requests relevant information, as specified.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/14/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/15/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/23/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 05/13/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 05/31/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 06/17/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 07/01/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
12. 08/20/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
13. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
14. 09/18/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
15. AB1147 (committee substitute) — source
16. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• amendments be concurred in. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Be referred to Committee on Appropriations. — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 8–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1147 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — 68–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1147 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading Amend By GOMEZ Set #1 — 52–24 (pass) · lower
• AB 1147 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1147 Bonilla By Liu — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)
• Chau — coauthor (person)
• Gatto — coauthor (person)
• Gomez — author (person)
• Holden — author (person)
• Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-07 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-05-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-05-09 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Gomez.
• 2013-05-24 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Gomez.
• 2013-05-28 From inactive file.
• 2013-05-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2013-05-31 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 22. Page 1879.)
• 2013-05-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1880.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-31 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2013-06-03 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-01-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-07 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-01-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-01-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-15 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-01-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-01-22 Pass and retain by unanimous consent.
• 2014-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 1. Page 3681.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-01-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-02-06 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2014-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-07-24 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-08-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-08-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4859.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2014-08-27 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6550.)
• 2014-08-28 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2014-08-28 Re-referred to Coms. on B.,P. & C.P. and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2014-08-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 6644.)
• 2014-08-28 (pending re-referral to Com. on APPR.)
• 2014-08-28 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-29 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2014-08-29 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 6699.)
• 2014-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6717.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 406, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c8840d6e-91b5-4eea-9ecc-74b8082ba338. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).