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| AN ACT concerning professional regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Massage Licensing Act is amended by changing |
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| Sections 15 and 20 as follows:
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| (225 ILCS 57/15)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2012)
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| Sec. 15. Licensure requirements.
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| (a) Beginning January 1, 2005,
persons
engaged in massage |
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| for
compensation
must be licensed by the Department. The |
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| Department shall issue a license to
an individual who meets all |
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| of the following requirements:
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| (1) The applicant has applied in writing on the |
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| prescribed forms and has
paid the
required fees.
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| (2) The applicant is at least 18 years of age and of |
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| good moral character.
In
determining good
moral character, |
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| the Department may take into consideration
conviction of |
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| any crime under the laws of the United States or any state |
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| or
territory
thereof that is a felony or a misdemeanor or |
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| any crime that is directly related
to the practice of the |
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| profession.
Such a conviction shall not operate |
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| automatically as a complete
bar to a license,
except in the |
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| case of any conviction for prostitution, rape, or sexual
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| misconduct,
or where the applicant is a registered sex |
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| offender.
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| (3) The applicant has met one of the following |
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| requirements:
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| (A) has successfully completed the curriculum or |
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| curriculums of one or
more massage therapy schools |
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| approved by the Department that require
a minimum
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| 500 hours
and has
passed a
competency examination
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| approved by the Department;
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| (B) holds a current license from another |
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| jurisdiction having licensure
requirements that meet |
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| or exceed those defined within this Act; or
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| (C) has moved to Illinois from a jurisdiction with |
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| no licensure
requirement and has
provided |
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| documentation that he or she has successfully passed |
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| the
National Certification Board of Therapeutic |
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| Massage and Bodywork's examination
or another
massage |
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| therapist certifying examination approved by the |
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| Department
and maintains current certification.
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| (b) Each applicant for licensure as a massage therapist |
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| shall have his or her fingerprints submitted to the Department |
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| of State Police in an electronic format that complies with the |
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| form and manner for requesting and furnishing criminal history |
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| record information as prescribed by the Department of State |
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| Police. These fingerprints shall be checked against the |
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| Department of State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| criminal history record databases now and hereafter filed. The |
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| Department of State Police shall charge applicants a fee for |
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| conducting the criminal history records check, which shall be |
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| deposited into the State Police Services Fund and shall not |
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| exceed the actual cost of the records check. The Department of |
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| State Police shall furnish, pursuant to positive |
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| identification, records of Illinois convictions to the |
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| Department. The Department may require applicants to pay a |
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| separate fingerprinting fee, either to the Department or to a |
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| vendor. The Department, in its discretion, may allow an |
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| applicant who does not have reasonable access to a designated |
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| vendor to provide his or her fingerprints in an alternative |
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| manner. The Department may adopt any rules necessary to |
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| implement this Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-860, eff. 6-1-03; 93-524, eff. 8-12-03.)
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| (225 ILCS 57/20)
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| (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2012)
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| Sec. 20. Grandfathering provision.
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| (a) For a period of one year after the effective date of |
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| the rules adopted
under this Act, the
Department may issue a |
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| license to an individual who, in addition to meeting the
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| requirements set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection |
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| (a) and subsection (b) of Section 15, produces
proof that he or |
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| she has met at least one of the following requirements before
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| the effective date of this Act:
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| (1) has been an active member, for a period of at least |
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| one year prior to
the
application for licensure, of a |
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| national professional massage therapy
organization |
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| established prior to the year 2000, which offers |
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| professional
liability insurance and a code of ethics;
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| (2) has passed the National Certification Exam of |
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| Therapeutic Massage and
Bodywork and has kept his or her |
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| certification current;
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| (3) has practiced massage therapy an average of at |
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| least 10 hours per week
for at least 10 years; or
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| (4) has practiced massage therapy an average of at |
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| least 10 hours per week
for at least one year prior to the |
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| effective date of this Act and has
completed
at least 100 |
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| hours of formal training in massage therapy.
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| (b) An applicant who can show proof of having engaged in |
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| the
practice of
massage therapy
for at least 10 hours per week |
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| for a minimum of one year prior to the effective
date of this |
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| Act and has less than 100
hours of formal training or has been |
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| practicing for less than one year with
100
hours of formal |
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| training must
complete at least 100 additional hours of formal
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| training consisting of at least 25 hours in anatomy and |
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| physiology by January
1, 2005.
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| (c) An applicant who has training from another state or |
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| country may
qualify for a license under subsection (a)
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| showing proof
of meeting the
requirements of that state or |
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| country and demonstrating that those requirements
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| substantially the same as the
requirements in this Section.
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| (d) For purposes of this Section, "formal training" means a |
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| massage therapy
curriculum approved by
the Illinois State Board |