Relating to professional standards for the certification or designation of music therapists and providing penalties

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2021
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 14, 2021
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill requires any person claiming to be a music therapist to hold a music therapist board-certified credential S.F. granted by the certification board for music therapists or a professional designation in good standing listed on the national music therapy registry. A person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally violates the bill is guilty of a simple misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than days or a fine of at least $105 but not more than $855 or by both.

Full bill text¹

Senate subcommittee

Named February 9, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Waylon Brown R
• Sen. Eric Giddens D
• Sen. Jason Schultz REmail

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

• HF 419 Relating to professional standards for the certification or designation of music therapist…
  88th General Assembly · Passed House · same title
  Passed a chamber

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• HF 285 Relating to professional standards for the certification or designation of music therapist…
  89th General Assembly · Signed by Governor
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