republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-35.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF MASSAGE AND BODYWORK.	This bill sets forth a framework for the licensing, regulation and inspection of business establishments that provide massage and bodywork services. This bill places oversight of any business offering massage services in the hands of the Board of Massage and Bodywork. Specifically, it defines “massage establishment,” and grants authority to the Board of Massage and Bodywork to grant or deny licensure of such establishments and adopt regulations pertaining to the licensure, maintenance and standards to be applied to such establishments. It provides authority for the Division or Professional Regulation to inspect such establishments without any advance notice or concurrent criminal investigation. This bill imposes criminal and civil penalties, including injunctive relief, fines, and imprisonment, for the unlicensed practice of massage and bodywork and the operation of an unlicensed massage establishment.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 35	Delaware HB 35 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryon H. Short Debra Heffernan Gregory F. Lavelle Harris B. McDowell Stephen Smyk	1	18	3	2017-01-12	2017-07-26	openstates	ocd-bill/f66906ae-648d-49b9-8004-d077369cc7a2	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25387	bd46288c3020272088e51adaef0772136ec63353747e78046d71bbd09dd02863	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 35 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF MASSAGE AND BODYWORK.

This bill sets forth a framework for the licensing, regulation and inspection of business establishments that provide massage and bodywork services. This bill places oversight of any business offering massage services in the hands of the Board of Massage and Bodywork. Specifically, it defines “massage establishment,” and grants authority to the Board of Massage and Bodywork to grant or deny licensure of such establishments and adopt regulations pertaining to the licensure, maintenance and standards to be applied to such establishments. It provides authority for the Division or Professional Regulation to inspect such establishments without any advance notice or concurrent criminal investigation. This bill imposes criminal and civil penalties, including injunctive relief, fines, and imprisonment, for the unlicensed practice of massage and bodywork and the operation of an unlicensed massage establishment.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/5 — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 39–1 (pass) · lower
• 3/5 — 37–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
• Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-12 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-01-18 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 Favorable committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-30 Amendment HA 1 to HB 35 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-30 Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-30 Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-30 Amendment HA 2 to HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-30 Amendment HA 2 to HA 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-30 Amendment HA 1 to HB 35 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-30 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-04-04 Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Amendment SA 1 to HB 35 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-28 Amendment SA 1 to HB 35 - Stricken in Senate
• 2017-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-15 Amendment SA 2 to HB 35 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-15 Amendment SA 2 to HB 35 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-06-15 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-22 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f66906ae-648d-49b9-8004-d077369cc7a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).