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FSMTB Announces Model Practice Act Task Force
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(Overland Park, KS, April 1, 2011) The Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) announces the launch of a project to develop a Model Practice Act (MPA) for the profession. The FSMTB board of directors has appointed an MPA Task Force comprised of representatives from the regulatory community of the FSMTB member boards and agencies.
Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards Model Practice Act Task Force members:
Jane Johnson MPA Task Force Chair and Chair, Georgia Board of Massage Therapy
Heather Bennouri Vice Chair, Oregon Board of Massage Therapists
Dr. Kathleen Doyle Executive Secretary, New York State Board for Massage Therapy
Yvonne Feinleib Director, Texas Department of State Health Services Massage Therapy Program
Karen Goff Ford Chair, Florida Board of Massage Therapy
Rick Greely State Medical Board of Ohio Massage Therapy Advisory Committee
Deborah Overholt Chair, New Jersey Board of Massage and
Carolyn Talley-Porter Chair, South Carolina Board of Massage/Bodywork Therapy
The Model Practice Act is intended to provide a resource to legislatures and massage therapy boards when addressing issues related to the public protection mission of regulating the practice of massage therapy. The first MPA Task force meeting is being held today in Albany, New York.
Once an initial draft of the Model Practice Act is completed, it will be made available to the profession for comment so that all interested parties will have the opportunity to inform the development of the Model Practice Act before it is finalized. The ongoing status of this project will be updated on the FSMTB website: www.fsmtb.org.
The Federation's mission is to support its member boards in their work of public protection, improve communication between states and offer prospects for enhanced licensing reciprocity for the ultimate benefit of safe massage and bodywork practice protecting consumers.
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Comments
Location: California
When people say more regulation; what I hear is more money out of the poor massage therapists pockets. People, no matter what the survey from AMTA says, the majority of therapists out in the world are just trying to stay a float. With demands from the cities for permits and insurance,or state licenses, insurance, administration fees. Now something new is coming. All because of a few bad apples. Well just as you can tell the huckster from legitimate lawyers, the same is true for massage. Yet we are the ones punished with fee's upon fee's and we certainly don't deserve it. We are out here helping people, and unlike the lawyers of the world, we normally need a second job in order to do that and make rent and eat.