republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2024a/sb-24-201.md

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Bill	Increase Massage Therapy Education Program Hours	Current law requires an applicant for massage therapist licensure to attain a degree, obtain a diploma, or otherwise successfully complete a massage therapy program that consists of at least 500 total hours of coursework and clinical work from an approved massage school. The act increases the coursework and clinical work minimum requirement to 650 total hours starting July 1, 2024.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2024A	SB 24-201	Colorado SB 24-201 (2024A)	bill		enacted	Dafna Michaelson Jenet Jim Smallwood Mandy Lindsay Rose Pugliese	9	13	2	2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00	2024-06-07T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c788daf8-41ec-4e1d-b29b-b30ce2d9f00d	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-201	df43beb707fb2b315e35a2f3a11f3e816a641524a7ffbd9d664ce9d0fe07ca1f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 24-201 (2024A) — Increase Massage Therapy Education Program Hours

Current law requires an applicant for massage therapist licensure to attain a degree, obtain a diploma, or otherwise successfully complete a massage therapy program that consists of at least 500 total hours of coursework and clinical work from an approved massage school. The act increases the coursework and clinical work minimum requirement to 650 total hours starting July 1, 2024.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/22/2024) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2024) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (04/08/2024) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/18/2024) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/23/2024) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (05/06/2024) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (05/05/2024) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/07/2024) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 53–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dafna Michaelson Jenet — primary (person)
• Jim Smallwood — primary (person)
• Mandy Lindsay — primary (person)
• Rose Pugliese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2024-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2024-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2024-05-01T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction
• 2024-04-23T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-22T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2024-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c788daf8-41ec-4e1d-b29b-b30ce2d9f00d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).