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New York's Massage Therapists Required to Complete Continuing Education
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A bill requiring that massage therapists complete continuing education was signed into law by Governor David Paterson on August 30.
The law will go into effect in January 2012. It mandates 36 hours of continuing education be completed by the state's massage therapists every registration period, or every three years.
The law also stipulates that massage therapists
will pay a new $45 "continuing education fee" to the state.
"This legislation is supported by the American Massage Therapy Association, which states that continuing education classes can help LMTs advance their knowledge and professionalism, keep up with new massage therapy information and research, and make connections between experience and training," the bill stated.
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Comments
Location: Macquignon
To Michele, $15 per year? It will cost some were around $800.00-$1000.00 per year between classes and fees plus loss wages
Location: NJ
I am licensed in NY and practice there. First of all, I have not received any notification of this.If I hadn't been reading this online article I would not have been aware of any new law! When were we going to get this news?!? Most of us already take continuing education classes for our AMTA membership and for the Nationals. Hopefully these CEUs will count towards this requirement. I'm not happy about this. It will effect how and where I work. Laura
Location: oriental, nc
I'm 58 years old and licensed LMBT for 2 years. I am astounded that a massage business, a Complementary/Alternative Medicine practice, requires such a huge monetary outlay to function. This is in addition to federal, state, local, office rent and insurance costs. The states keep increasing fees while our clients are unable to pay for enough treatments to actually get well. Is there tacit support from the local AMA's to keep CAM at bay for as long as it can? Just tax the therapists out of business. Amazing. And what does licensing actually do for the LMT? That challenge was put out by the MBLEX...so now the NCMTMT has to come up with "advanced" certification? Where will this end? In my retirement.