republic-os/legislation/us/states/la/2022/hb-240.md

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Bill	MASSAGE THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the licensed profession of massage therapy	MASSAGE THERAPISTS: Provides relative to the licensed profession of massage therapy	us/states/la	Louisiana Legislature	2022	HB 240	Louisiana HB 240 (2022)	bill		enacted	Julie Emerson	8	20	2	2022-02-28	2022-05-17	openstates	ocd-bill/98e0108c-6c3a-4d16-ade1-eb3ebac80bdc	http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=241823	e4b1dfcb095f7b6d135c8deb19282853b415acd69548925a22423c1b2821dea8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. HB240 Act (committee substitute) — source
3. HB240 Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. HB240 Reengrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Committee Amendment, #1759, COM, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. House Floor Amendment, #2167, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
7. House Floor Amendment, #2189, Emerson, Adopted (committee substitute) — source
8. HB240 Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/98e0108c-6c3a-4d16-ade1-eb3ebac80bdc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).