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Bill Georgia Massage Therapy Practice Act; enact A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide for the regulation of massage therapy educational programs; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to clarify requirements for massage therapy licenses; to provide for violations; to provide for conditions relating to regulation by counties, municipalities, or other local jurisdictions relating to massage therapy; to require reporting of violations of Chapter 24A; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2019_20 HB 242 Georgia HB 242 (2019_20)
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Karen Bennett
Karen Mathiak
Lee Hawkins
Pat Gardner
5 16 1 2019-02-11 2019-05-06 openstates ocd-bill/c826ef31-342b-4f9a-9086-d8ab419ec8d5 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 8fc8fa0e01d5c3bb750ebd940c39d77a35cce2c9661c64aed45df035046aba1a 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 242 (2019_20) — Georgia Massage Therapy Practice Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide for the regulation of massage therapy educational programs; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to clarify requirements for massage therapy licenses; to provide for violations; to provide for conditions relating to regulation by counties, municipalities, or other local jurisdictions relating to massage therapy; to require reporting of violations of Chapter 24A; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

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

  1. HB 242/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 33 7682/a (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 33 7818S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 33 7818S/hs (committee substitute) — source
  5. Sen ctee sub LC 36 3981S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 15613 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Alan Powell — primary (person)
  • Karen Bennett — primary (person)
  • Karen Mathiak — primary (person)
  • Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
  • Pat Gardner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-02-11 House Hopper
  • 2019-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2019-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2019-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2019-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2019-03-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2019-03-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2019-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2019-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2019-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2019-04-12 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2019-05-06 Act 213 executive-signature
  • 2019-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c826ef31-342b-4f9a-9086-d8ab419ec8d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).