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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 768 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5440 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 768 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. FERRARO, 117th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT EXCLUDING CERTAIN ACTIVITIES FROM THE DEFINITION | |
| 19 | 19 | OF MASSAGE THERAPY. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That section 20-206a of the general statutes be amended to revise the 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | definition of massage therapy to exclude bodywork involving stroking 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | of the hands, feet or ears or the use of touch, words and directed 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | movement, including healing touch, therapeutic touch, mind-body 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | centering, ortho-bionomy, traeger therapy, reflexology, polarity 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | therapy, reiki, qigong, muscle activation techniques or other practices 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | with the primary purpose of affecting energy systems of the human 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | body. 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 32 | 32 | To redefine massage therapy to exclude certain activities from those | |
| 33 | 33 | requiring licensure. |