HB1469: Relative to the licensing requirements for massage therapy establishments.
Engrossed
House
Summary
Relative to the licensing requirements for massage therapy establishments.
Sponsors
Charles Foote
R - HD-13-ROC
Primary
Jaci Grote
D - HD-24-ROC
Co-sponsor
Jodi Nelson
R - HD-13-ROC
Co-sponsor
Jennifer Rhodes
R - HD-17-CHE
Co-sponsor
Terry Roy
R - HD-31-ROC
Co-sponsor
Kimberly Rice
R - HD-38-HIL
Co-sponsor
Nancy Murphy
D - HD-12-HIL
Co-sponsor
Dennis Mannion
R - HD-25-ROC
Co-sponsor
Joe Sweeney
R - HD-25-ROC
Co-sponsor
David Milz
R - HD-13-ROC
Co-sponsor
Debra Altschiller
D - SD-024
Co-sponsor
Regina Birdsell
R - SD-019
Co-sponsor
Daryl Abbas
R - SD-022
Co-sponsor
William Gannon
R - SD-023
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-12-04 Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Executive Departments and Administration House Journal 1 P. 21
- 2026-01-13 Public Hearing: 01/21/2026 10:00 am GP 231
- 2026-01-28 Full Committee Work Session: 02/02/2026 11:00 am GP 231
- 2026-01-29 Full Committee Work Session: 02/04/2026 11:00 am GP 231
- 2026-02-05 Executive Session: 02/11/2026 10:00 am GP 231
- 2026-02-11 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-0615h (NT) 02/11/2026 (Vote 13-1; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 7 P. 33
- 2026-02-19 Amendment # 2026-0615h: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote 02/19/2026 House Journal 5
- 2026-02-19 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-0615h: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/19/2026 House Journal 5
- 2026-02-19 Referred to Finance 02/19/2026 House Journal 5
- 2026-03-03 Division I Work Session: 03/13/2026 10:00 am GP 230
- 2026-03-13 Executive Session: 03/17/2026 10:00 am GP 230
- 2026-03-18 Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1187h 03/17/2026 (Vote 15-10; Regular Calendar)
- 2026-03-18 Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- 2026-03-26 Amendment # 2026-1187h: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote 03/26/2026 House Journal 9
- 2026-03-26 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1187h: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 323-28 03/26/2026 House Journal 9
- 2026-03-30 Introduced 03/26/2026 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; Senate Journal 7
- 2026-04-02 Hearing: 04/15/2026, Room 103, State House, 09:10 am; Senate Calendar 13
Committee Referrals
2025-12-04
Executive Departments and Administration
House
2026-02-19
Finance
House
2026-03-30
Executive Departments and Administration
Senate
Calendar Events
Past Events (7)
2026-01-21
Hearing - GP 231
2026-02-02
Hearing - GP 231
2026-02-04
Hearing - GP 231
2026-02-11
Hearing - GP 231
2026-03-13
Hearing - GP 230
2026-03-17
Hearing - GP 230
2026-04-15
Hearing - Room 103, State House
Votes
OTPA
2026-03-26
Passed
Yea: 323
Nay: 28
NV: 15
Absent: 27
Individual Votes (393)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Yea | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Yea | Adam Presa | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Yea | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Yea | Andrew Prout | Nay |
| Allan Howland | Yea | Arnold Davis | Yea |
| Allison Knab | Yea | Barbara Comtois | Yea |
| Amy Malone | NV | Bill Boyd | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Yea | Bill Ohm | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Yea | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | Yea | Brian Cole | Yea |
| Bill Bolton | Yea | Brian Labrie | Yea |
| Billie Butler | Yea | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Bobbi Boudman | Yea | Brian Seaworth | Nay |
| Brian Sullivan | Yea | Brian Taylor | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Yea | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carrie Sorensen | Yea | Calvin Beaulier | Nay |
| Carry Spier | Yea | Carol McGuire | Nay |
| Cassandra Levesque | Yea | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Yea | Charles Foote | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Yea | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Absent | Charles Melvin | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Yea | Cindy Bennett | Yea |
| Chris McAleer | Yea | Claudine Burnham | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Yea | Clayton Wood | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Yea | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Absent | Dan McGuire | Nay |
| Christopher Herbert | Yea | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Nay |
| Connie Lane | Yea | Darrell Louis | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Yea | David Love | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Yea | David Lundgren | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | Yea | David Milz | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | Yea | David Nagel | Yea |
| Daniel Veilleux | Yea | David Walker | Yea |
| David Fracht | Yea | Deborah Aylward | Yea |
| David Luneau | Yea | Debra DeSimone | Yea |
| David Meuse | Yea | Denis Murphy | Yea |
| David Paige | Yea | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Yea |
| David Preece | Yea | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dennis Malloy | Yea | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Dru Fox | Yea | Diane Pauer | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Yea | Dick Thackston | Absent |
| Eileen Kelly | Yea | Dillon Dumont | Nay |
| Eleana Colby | Yea | Donald McFarlane | Absent |
| Ellen Read | Absent | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Yea | Douglas Thomas | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Yea | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Eric Turer | Yea | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erica deVries | Yea | Ernesto Gonzalez | NV |
| Erik Johnson | Yea | Gary Daniels | Yea |
| Erin Kerwin | Yea | George Grant | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Yea | Gerald Griffin | Nay |
| Gaby Grossman | NV | Glen Aldrich | Nay |
| Gary Gilmore | NV | Glenn Bailey | Nay |
| Gary Woods | Yea | Gregory Hill | Nay |
| Geoff Smith | Yea | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| George Sykes | Yea | Jack Flanagan | Nay |
| Gerald Ward | Yea | James Guzofski | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | NV | James Spillane | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Yea | James Summers | Absent |
| Heather Baldwin | Yea | James Thibault | Yea |
| Heather Raymond | Yea | James Tierney | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Yea | Jason Osborne | Yea |
| Jaci Grote | Yea | Jay Markell | Yea |
| James Gruber | Yea | JD Bernardy | Yea |
| James MacKay | NV | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| James Newsom | Yea | Jeffrey Tenczar | Yea |
| James Roesener | Yea | Jennifer Rhodes | Yea |
| Janet Lucas | Yea | Jeremy Slottje | Nay |
| Janet Wall | Yea | Jess Edwards | Nay |
| Jared Sullivan | Yea | Jim Creighton | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Yea | Jim Fedolfi | Yea |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Yea | Jim Kofalt | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Yea | Jim Qualey | Nay |
| Jessica Grill | Yea | Jodi Nelson | Yea |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Yea | Joe Alexander | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Yea | Joe Sweeney | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Yea | John Hunt | Yea |
| Jodi Newell | Yea | John Janigian | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Yea | John Leavitt | Absent |
| John Larochelle | Yea | John MacDonald | Yea |
| John Stone | Yea | John Potucek | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Nay | John Schneller | Yea |
| Julie Gilman | Absent | John Sellers | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Yea | John Suiter | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Absent | John Sytek | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Yea | Jonathan Morton | Yea |
| Kate Murray | Yea | Jonathan Smith | Nay |
| Kathy Staub | Yea | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Kristina Schultz | Yea | Jose Cambrils | Absent |
| Laura Telerski | Yea | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Yea | Joseph Guthrie | NV |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Yea | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Yea | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | NV | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Yea | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Yea |
| Linda Haskins | Yea | Julius Soti | Nay |
| Linda Ryan | Yea | Karel Crawford | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Yea | Katelyn Kuttab | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Yea | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Louis Juris | Yea | Kathleen Paquette | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Yea | Katy Peternel | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Yea | Keith Ammon | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Yea | Keith Erf | Nay |
| Manoj Chourasia | Yea | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Yea | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Yea | Kevin Scully | Yea |
| Mark MacKenzie | Yea | Kevin Verville | Absent |
| Mark Paige | Yea | Kimberly Rice | Yea |
| Mark Vallone | Yea | Kristin Noble | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Yea | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Georges | Yea | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Yea | Laurence Miner | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Yea | Leonard Turcotte | Yea |
| Matthew Hicks | Yea | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Yea | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Megan Murray | Yea | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Linda Gould | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Yea | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Yea | Lino Avellani | Nay |
| Molly Howard | Yea | Lisa Freeman | Absent |
| Muriel Hall | Yea | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Myles England | Absent | Lisa Post | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Yea | Liz Barbour | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | Yea | Lori Korzen | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Yea | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | Yea | Louise Andrus | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Absent | Marc Tremblay | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Yea | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Patrick Long | Yea | Marie Bjelobrk | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Yea | Mark McLean | Absent |
| Paul Dargie | Yea | Mark Pearson | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Yea | Mark Proulx | Yea |
| Peter Bixby | Yea | Mark Warden | Nay |
| Peter Leishman | Yea | Mary Ford | Yea |
| Peter Lovett | Yea | Mary Murphy | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Yea | Matt Drew | Nay |
| Peter Schmidt | Yea | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Yea | Matthew Coker | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Yea | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Yea | Maureen Mooney | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Yea | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | Absent | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Sallie Fellows | Yea | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Yea | Michael Harrington | Nay |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Absent | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Santosh Salvi | Yea | Michael Murphy | Absent |
| Seth Miller | Yea | Michael Vose | Yea |
| Stephanie Grund | Yea | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Stephanie Payeur | Yea | Mike Bordes | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Yea | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Sue Newman | Yea | Mike Ouellet | Yea |
| Suraj Budathoki | Yea | Nicholas Bridle | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Yea | Pamela Brown | Yea |
| Susan Elberger | Yea | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Yea | Paul Tudor | Nay |
| Suzanne Vail | Yea | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Yea | Peter Morency | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Yea | Peter Varney | NV |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Phyllis Katsakiores | NV |
| Thomas Cormen | Yea | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Thomas Oppel | Yea | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Yea | Raymond Peeples | Yea |
| Thomas Southworth | Yea | Raymond Plante | Absent |
| Tim Hartnett | Yea | Richard Brown | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Yea | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Yea | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Yea | Richard Tripp | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Yea | Riche Colcombe | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Yea | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Yea | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Yea | Robert Harb | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Yea | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Yea | Robley Hall | Absent |
| William Darby | Yea | Roderick Ladd | Yea |
| William Dolan | Absent | Ron Dunn | Yea |
| William Palmer | Yea | Ross Berry | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Yea | Russell Dumais | Yea |
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sayra Devito | Yea | ||
| Scott Bryer | Yea | ||
| Sean Durkin | Yea | ||
| Seth King | Yea | ||
| Shane Sirois | Yea | ||
| Sheri Minor | Absent | ||
| Sherman Packard | Absent | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Yea | ||
| Skip Rollins | Yea | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Yea | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Yea | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Yea | ||
| Steven Bogert | Yea | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Absent | ||
| Steven Smith | NV | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Yea | ||
| Susan Deroy | Yea | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Yea | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Yea | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Yea | ||
| Ted Gorski | Yea | ||
| Terry Roy | Yea | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Nay | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Nay | ||
| Tim Mannion | Absent | ||
| Tom Dolan | Yea | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Nay | ||
| Travis Corcoran | Yea | ||
| Travis Toner | NV | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | Yea | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Yea | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Yea | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Yea | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Yea | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Yea | ||
| Yury Polozov | Nay |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV