BILL NUMBER: SCR 135	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Evans

                        JULY 3, 2014

   Relative to National Massage Therapy Awareness Week in California.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 135, as introduced, Evans. National Massage Therapy Awareness
Week.
   This measure would proclaim the week of October 19, 2014, to
October 25, 2014, inclusive, as National Massage Therapy Awareness
Week in California.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, Massage therapy is beneficial to overall health and is
increasingly part of integrated health care; and
   WHEREAS, Consumers are spending in excess of $12 billion to $17
billion annually on massage therapy, and more insurance companies are
covering it; and
   WHEREAS, Therapeutic massage can benefit people of all ages; and
   WHEREAS, A growing body of clinical research shows that massage
therapy is beneficial for a wide variety of health issues, including
stress, high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, arthritis, back pain,
muscle injury and soreness, headaches, and maintaining good health;
and
   WHEREAS, The American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), a
56,000-member professional association for massage therapists,
provides consumer and professional education information on massage
and helps consumers and health professionals locate qualified massage
therapists in their area; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature proclaims the week of
October 19, 2014, to October 25, 2014, inclusive, as National Massage
Therapy Awareness Week in California; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.