SB168
To Establish a State Examination for Licensure of Massage Therapists.
Rice · 2025 Regular Session · Died on House Calendar at Sine Die adjournment.
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TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS.
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27 mentions · 19 meetings · 10 named speakers
April 15, 2025
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Matched: “SB168 Rice K. Brown TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSUR…”
madam clerk with 97 yay 0 nay and 0 present the bill has passed madam clerk please read Senate bill 168 Senate
Senate Bill 168 to provide for a state test for licensed massage therapist. This test is an entry level exam and I know that you've received numerous emails, texts, probably phone calls. This is not a controversial bill, except in some peop...
...ed and eight Arkansans who took the exam last year passed on their first try 70% is the national average. SB 168 would require the Arkansas Department of Health to create and administer a second license exam as a second option to the MBLEX.
them. Please vote against SB 168. Representative Crawford has spoken against
Please, but against SB 168. Representative Crawford has spoken against the bill.
passage of Senate Bill 168. Prepare the machine, Madam Clerk. Has everyone voted? Has everyone voted? Cast up the ballot, Madam Clerk. With 12 yeas, 75 nays, and five present, the bill has failed. Madam Clerk, please read Senate Bill
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April 14, 2025
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Matched: “SB168 Rice K. Brown TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSUR…”
pass over senate bill 168 for the moment madam
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April 10, 2025
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Matched: “SB168 Rice K. Brown TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSUR…”
Request I'll hear your request. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Pursuant to House rules 38T. I respectfully request a fiscal impact for Senate Bill 168.
for Senate bill 168 that's a proper request pursuant to rule 38T I direct fiscal impact be prepared placed on the desk of each member within the next five days represented friend Cavanaugh
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April 8, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
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Matched: “…PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST MATERIALS OR TEST DATA. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
You have another one? Well, so I didn't realize it was on deferred. I didn't think it was, but I was going to run Carolyn Brown's Senate Bill 168. Well, I'll make a motion to take that off deferred if it's okay with the committee.
So without objection means we unanimously agree to take it off deferred. Without objection, Senate Bill 168 will come off deferred. Appreciate it. You're recognized to
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April 8, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
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Matched: “…PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST MATERIALS OR TEST DATA. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
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April 3, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST MATERIALS OR TEST DATA. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
April 1, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST MATERIALS OR TEST DATA. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
March 20, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…G UTILIZATION REVIEW BOARD TO INCLUDE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
March 18, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…G UTILIZATION REVIEW BOARD TO INCLUDE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
March 18, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…G UTILIZATION REVIEW BOARD TO INCLUDE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
March 13, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…G UTILIZATION REVIEW BOARD TO INCLUDE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
March 11, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…G UTILIZATION REVIEW BOARD TO INCLUDE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
March 6, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
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Matched: “SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
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March 4, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
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Matched: “SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
...posed. Congratulations, you passed your bill. Members, we're gonna jump down to Senate Bill 168, Representative Brown, are you in the room? There you are. You're red to go to the end of the table. Sometimes it's not Members of this bill doe...
...ns, you passed your bill. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. All right, committee, we're gonna go back to Senate Bill 168, I believe the staff has been able to get that amendment ready for us. We're gonna hand the amendment out, give you a
Eckert. Your you present the amendment on Senate Bill 168. Thank
...endment? question We have a motion to adopt the amendment. Any discussion on the motion? See none, all those in favor say I opposed. Congratulations, your amendment has been adopted. You are recognized to present Senate bill 168 as amended.
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Feb. 20, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…NSURE FOR OUT-OF-STATE LICENSURE ACT TO MASSAGE THERAPISTS. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
Feb. 18, 2025 · Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee (House)
Matched: “…PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST MATERIALS OR TEST DATA. SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
Feb. 12, 2025
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Matched: “168. Senate Bill 168 by Senator Rice to establish a state examination for licens…”
168. Senate Bill 168 by Senator Rice to establish a state examination for licenser of massage therapist and declare an emergency. Senator Rice, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam President. Members, let me state first. I support my massage...
...y not be in their area, but there is a shortage not just in rural Arkansas. But also in the cities. SB 168 is establish a state examination of licenger, a massage therapist. Arkansas has had a state test in the past. Why is this needed now?
... Arkansas specific and that was some of the problem that was brought up. In, in the testimony. SB 168 calls for adequate. Testing spelled out in the bill in these categories. Again, in those That testing in Arkansas, why it was pointed out.
...e board. Seeing no others. Please cast up the ballot. By a vote of 27 5 nay, 0. Senate Bill 168 passes and the corresponding emergency clause is adopted. We will now take up Senate bill. Transmit Senate Bill 168 to the House. We will now ta...
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Feb. 10, 2025 · Public Health Welfare & Labor Committee (Senate & House)
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Matched: “SB168 Rice TO ESTABLISH A STATE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE OF MASS…”
...if you'll just state your name names for the record, and you may proceed. We are with Senate Bill 168. Thank you, Madam Chair. Senator Terry Rice, District 5. Flushy. Julie Eckert, uh, master of massage therapist. Thank you. Please proceed.
... my point. It can go up without any restraint. Thank you, Madam Chair. We're on Senate Bill 168, Senator Love, um, so just, uh, to Senator Ledings' question, this is a new term that I also looked in the bill. wanted to understand, and that'...
... strong opposition of state-level testing for massage therapists as proposed by SB 168. Um, firstly, I would like to say thank you, Senator Rice, for your interest and your support of massage therapy in the state of Arkansas. We really do a...
Additionally, SB 168 asserts that a shortage of massage therapists in the state constitutes an emergency. A recent Baylor University study states that that 11.1% of people seek care from a massage therapist. Using this average, there is one...
...aynard. I am a business owner in Sherwood. I actually am also an educator for massage, and I oppose SB 168. My main concerns about SB 168. I would like for you to think about something that maybe we haven't spoken in these particular terms.
...re working with people's bodies and you can harm someone while massaging them. And so that's why I am opposing SB 168. OK, thank you so much. Appreciate your time. Any questions? Say none. OK, Christy Strather. She took my OK, well you got.
...or the record, you may proceed. My name is Jamie Moody, and I am here to oppose Senate Bill 168, my, um, background is I'm a speech therapist and I am a massage therapist, and I took the Ilex and passed it the first time, it was a difficult...
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Feb. 3, 2025
Matched: “…licener, a massage therapist, and to declare an emergency, Senate Bill 168. Public health symbol 169 by Centra Tucker. make technical…”
...tate examination for licener, a massage therapist, and to declare an emergency, Senate Bill 168. Public health symbol 169 by Centra Tucker. make technical corrections to the Arkansas Constitution and to amend the Arkansas Constitution Amend...
Documents (14)
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Apr 8, 2025 · April 8, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Apr 8, 2025 · April 8, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Apr 3, 2025 · April 3, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Apr 1, 2025 · April 1, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Mar 20, 2025 · March 20, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Mar 18, 2025 · March 18, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Mar 18, 2025 · March 18, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Mar 13, 2025 · March 13, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Mar 11, 2025 · March 11, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Mar 6, 2025 · March 6, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Mar 4, 2025 · March 4, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Feb 20, 2025 · Feb. 20, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE, Feb 18, 2025 · Feb. 18, 2025
- Agenda — PUBLIC HEALTH WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE AND HOUSE, Feb 10, 2025 · Feb. 10, 2025
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