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type: "Bill"
title: "Increase Massage Therapy Education Program Hours"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "SB 24-201"
citation: "Colorado SB 24-201 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dafna Michaelson Jenet", "Jim Smallwood", "Mandy Lindsay", "Rose Pugliese"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-06-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c788daf8-41ec-4e1d-b29b-b30ce2d9f00d"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-201"
source_hash: "df43beb707fb2b315e35a2f3a11f3e816a641524a7ffbd9d664ce9d0fe07ca1f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_sb201_h_bus_001.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (04/22/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_201_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/17/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_201_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (04/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_201_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (04/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_201_s_ed_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (04/23/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_201_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/06/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_201_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/05/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_201_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (06/07/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_201_signed.pdf)
## Votes
- BILL — **330** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **539** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c788daf8-41ec-4e1d-b29b-b30ce2d9f00d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).