05/09/2007
House Bill 847, sponsored by Representative Rick Miera, was signed into law by Governor Richardson on April 2, 2007. The law will exempt the following practitioners from the Massage Therapy Practice Act:
- Qualified members of other recognized professions that are licensed or regulated under New Mexico law.
- Students within the course of their study in an approved massage therapy school and under the supervision of a licensed massage therapy instructor.
- Visiting massage instructors who are in compliance with their resident state’s requirements for licensure.
- Sobadores; Hispanic traditional healers; Native American healers; reflexologists whose practices are limited to hands, feet and ears; practitioners of polarity, Trager approach, Feldenkrais method, craniosacral therapy, Rolfing structural integration, reiki, ortho-bionomy or ch'i gung; or practitioners of healing modalities not listed in this subsection who do not manipulate the soft tissues for therapeutic purposes from practicing those skills.
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