44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

RELATING TO LICENSING; ENACTING A NEW SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978 TO EXEMPT CERTAIN PERSONS AND ACTIVITIES FROM THE APPLICATION OF THE MASSAGE THERAPY PRACTICE ACT; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. A new section of the Massage Therapy Practice Act is enacted to read:

"[NEW MATERIAL] EXEMPTIONS FROM ACT.--Excluded from the application of the Massage Therapy Practice Act are:

A. services or procedures for which a license or registration is required by law or rule and that are provided by licensed or registered members of recognized professions within the scope of the license or registration;

B. students who render massage therapy as part of a course of study in a massage therapy school under the supervision of a registered massage therapy instructor;

C. a visiting massage therapy instructor from another state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia or a foreign country if he is licensed or registered in his place of residence if required under that place's laws or, if not required, then if he is qualified in that place to provide massage therapy; and

D. traditional Hispanic or Native American healing practices performed by a sobador or a Native American healer."

Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.