HB300 Summary

• Allows Alabama to adopt and join the Interstate Massage Compact, establishing a multistate licensing pathway for massage therapists to practice across member states.

• Creates the Interstate Massage Compact Commission with membership consisting of state delegates to regulate and administer the compact through rules and oversight.

• Applicants for multistate licenses must hold an active single-state license, complete at least 625 clock hours of massage therapy education, pass a national licensing examination, pass background checks, and meet criminal history requirements.

• Establishes shared regulatory authority where home states have exclusive power to impose adverse actions on multistate licenses, while remote states can take action against individual authorizations to practice within their borders.

• Becomes effective October 1, 2024, contingent on the compact taking effect when enacted by the seventh member state.