SB37 Summary

• Allows Alabama to adopt the Interstate Massage Compact, creating a multistate licensing pathway for massage therapists to practice across member states while maintaining uniform standards.

• Establishes the Interstate Massage Compact Commission with one delegate per member state to oversee the compact's administration, rulemaking, and enforcement.

• Requires multistate license applicants to complete at least 625 clock hours of massage therapy education, pass a national licensing examination, and submit to background checks including FBI fingerprinting.

• Maintains state licensing authority jurisdiction over practitioners and allows individual states to take adverse action against licensees, with home state having exclusive power over multistate licenses.

• Becomes effective October 1, 2025, and takes full effect once enacted by a seventh member state.