Jurisdictional References
Massage Therapy License Types
There are two Types of licensing for Massage Therapists in Nevada: Professional and Business. Professional Licensing is a person’s first license when wanting to practice Massage Therapy, anywhere/anytime, in Nevada.
Of both Types of licensing in Nevada that you may need, Professional Licensing is required in every scenario where a person is practicing Massage Therapy.
A Professional License is typically the only license needed for a Massage Therapist in an Employment-Only-practice in Nevada. If a Massage Therapist is also practicing outside of employment, refer to the Business Licensing tab for additional information.
The following is a list of Nevada State Professional Licensing resources:
*not intended as legal advice
Government Relations (GR) Committee
Role of the Government Relations Committee:
Keeps Members, the Massage Therapy profession, and Public In-The-Know about local and state issues concerning the regulation of Massage Therapy in Nevada. Gathers information by several means – via: massage community-initiated intelligence, various interpersonal & governmental relationships, and legislative/regulatory-bodies’ public notification systems. Regulatory-proposals & -changes that affect our professionals’ privileged and business licensing requirements are recorded and addressed as necessary; consideration for and development of ‘a Chapter opinion’ is often motivated by the nature of the change and how it is fair for both the public and licensees/members.
Interested in working with the Government Relations Committee? Express Your Interest
Government Relations Committee Members
Chapter Board Liaison: Ivy Adams
Government Relations (GR) Updates
published AMTA-NV Notes
The way the Nevada Chapter informs its Members and the public is to post Notes here and inform our Contact Lists of GR Updates, including these posted Notes and other information that affects how they may practice Massage Therapy in Nevada.
The nature of the Notes that chapter-volunteers take, edit, and publish is to inform only – none of the Notes that the Nevada Chapter publishes are official documentation (i.e. Minutes, Forms, etc) of the authority’s regulatory-body of which we report (eg. publish Notes). We recommend anyone interested in the official documentation for a Meeting we may report on go to the authority’s Office for that documentation, which is usually listed in each of the Notes that we publish.
Types of Notes that we publish may include:
- synopses of proceedings, with/without Agenda/Exhibits/etc
- letters of opinion that the chapter has issued
- audio/video recordings of proceedings
- URLs/links to webpages that may provide More Information about a topic featured on this page
Check by Year for the records you seek – the Notes are, then, listed by regulatory-body:
Latest AMTA-NV, GR-related articles:
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Nevada State Board of Massage Therapy
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Nevada State Legislature – 82nd Session (2023)
Nevada State Board of Massage Therapy
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11/20/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regulatory Workshop of the NSBMT
10/30/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
08/14/ & 08/15/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting & Regulatory Workshop of the NSBMT
07/03/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regulatory Workshop of the NSBMT
06/04/ & 06/05/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
03/27/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
01/23/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
City of Reno, Nevada
11/18/2019 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Public Workshop of the City of Reno, Nevada
Nevada State Board of Massage Therapy
11/07/2018 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
09/05/2018 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
06/27/2018 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
06/18/2018 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Meeting of the NSBMT
04/18/2018 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
02/07/2018 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
Nevada State Board of Massage Therapy
12/13/2017 – AMTA-NV Notes for the NSBMT’s Reflexology Workshop
11/29/2017 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
10/24/2017 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
07/12/2017 – AMTA-NV Notes for the Regular Meeting of the NSBMT
Nevada State Legislature – 79th Session (2017)
Assembly Bill AB 179: introduced as BDR 766 on 12/10/2016, regarding changes to NRS 640.C, as described in our previous announcement – PASSED
Nevada State Legislature – 78th Session (2015)
Assembly Bill AB 126: regarding various updates to NRS 640.C, as described in our previous announcements – PASSED
Assembly Bill AB 336: regarding the requirement of posting national anti-human-trafficking signage in specific places of business – FAILED. Pursuant to chapter concerns regarding the use of “parlor” in the original Bill language: the last amended version of AB 336 reveals it was changed to “establishment”.
Assembly Bill AB 295: regarding the further definition and requirement of disclosure of services performed by providers of complementary and alternative health care – PASSED
Senate Bill SB 68: regarding the expedition in [massage therapy, et al] license application processing of current-state-license-holding Applicants – PASSED
Senate Bill SB 70: regarding various changes to the meetings of public bodies, et al – PASSED
Senate Bill SB 252: changed to SB 483 – regarding revision of state business licensing fees for certain organization types (corporations) and Annual List fee changes, et al – PASSED
City of Las Vegas, Nevada
Proposed TXT-44754: Proposes that medical doctors (offices/establishments) be exempt from the requirement of obtaining a massage establishment license to perform massage therapy services or contract or employ the conduct massage therapy in the space of a duly-licensed medical office.
Chapter Actions Taken: Opinion letter was submitted on June 28, 2012, to the City of Las Vegas Planning Department who developed the proposed change in the business license code; the Opinion Letter was vetted prior to submission by the National AMTA Government Relations department. An AMTA-Nevada Chapter-developed Opinion letter was submitted on August 13, 2012, to the City of Las Vegas Planning Department – it addressed additional clarification for issues that were submitted for passing in the Planning Committee stage on August 14, 2012.
Nevada State Board of Massage Therapists
On November 9, 2010, the Nevada State Board of Massage Therapists initiated proposed changes to the Nevada Administrative Code (NAC) regarding the massage therapy laws in NV, NRS 604C. On February 2nd, a Workshop to further develop the proposed changes occurred. Before this Workshop took place, your Nevada Chapter Board of Directors submitted a statement to the Workshop Members for consideration to include clarification of item D (proposed change/addition to the current NACs).
- Chapter Actions Taken: Email-noticed and -polled Nevada Chapter members, and collected & logged member-responses — sent an email to the NSBMT with a letter of Opinion describing Support of proposed changes and requesting clarification of Item D regarding the regulation of a Managing Therapist at each Massage Establishment.
- Activity: The Nevada Chapter issued, in Public Comment to the NSBMT at its April 15, 2011, Meeting, its Position Statement. During this meeting, the NSBMT did not vote to approve/deny the proposed NAC changes; instead, the changes were discussed and sent back to Workshop with suggestions.
Nevada State Legislature – 76th Session (2011)
Proposed Assembly Bill 335:
- Proposed a 5% Service Tax be levied on a business’s income for specified, provided services for Nevada businesses, including massage therapy services.
- Chapter Actions Taken: Opposition letter drafted & submitted to Bill Authors/Sponsors Assemblywoman Peggy Pierce (District 3) & Assemblyman Joe Hogan (District 10).
Proposed Senate Bill 412:
- Proposed massage therapy be regulated by the Board of Complimentary Integrative Medicine (BCIM)
- Chapter Actions Taken: Opposition letter was submitted to and received by Bill Sponsor Senator Michael Schneider, Chairman. The Chapter Opposition letter was vetted prior to submission by the National AMTA Government Relations department.
- Disposition: The current version of SB412 does not include massage therapy in its verbiage.
Any legislation that is addressed by the AMTA Nevada Chapter is in relation to the practice of massage therapy. The Chapter believes they have a responsibility to report and respond to any legislation that poses a concern to its members. If you are an AMTA Nevada Chapter member, please contact us at AMTABoard@amta-nv.org with your opinion on the items above so we may log your concerns, opinions, and suggestions. Thank you
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