{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-63-18-116","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-18-116","heading":"Authority to issue license - Qualifications - Rules and regulations","body":"(a) The board is authorized to issue a license to practice massage therapy to an applicant who: (1) Meets the qualifications set forth in § 63-18-105(b)(1) and (2) ; and (2) Has been certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork for the five-year period immediately preceding application for licensure and can submit documentation satisfactory to the board that the applicant has engaged in the practice of massage therapy in another state for the five-year period immediately preceding application for licensure, and who either: (A) Has met the qualifications set forth in § 63-18-105(b)(3) , but is unable, because the educational institution either was not state approved or is no longer in existence, to produce a transcript to document compliance; or (B) Graduated from a qualified massage school or course prior to October 1, 1995. (b) The board is authorized to promulgate rules that are necessary to effectuate this section. Acts 2006, ch. 737, § 4.\n(a) The board is authorized to issue a license to practice massage therapy to an applicant who: (1) Meets the qualifications set forth in § 63-18-105(b)(1) and (2) ; and (2) Has been certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork for the five-year period immediately preceding application for licensure and can submit documentation satisfactory to the board that the applicant has engaged in the practice of massage therapy in another state for the five-year period immediately preceding application for licensure, and who either: (A) Has met the qualifications set forth in § 63-18-105(b)(3) , but is unable, because the educational institution either was not state approved or is no longer in existence, to produce a transcript to document compliance; or (B) Graduated from a qualified massage school or course prior to October 1, 1995.\n(1) Meets the qualifications set forth in § 63-18-105(b)(1) and (2) ; and\n(2) Has been certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork for the five-year period immediately preceding application for licensure and can submit documentation satisfactory to the board that the applicant has engaged in the practice of massage therapy in another state for the five-year period immediately preceding application for licensure, and who either: (A) Has met the qualifications set forth in § 63-18-105(b)(3) , but is unable, because the educational institution either was not state approved or is no longer in existence, to produce a transcript to document compliance; or (B) Graduated from a qualified massage school or course prior to October 1, 1995.\n(A) Has met the qualifications set forth in § 63-18-105(b)(3) , but is unable, because the educational institution either was not state approved or is no longer in existence, to produce a transcript to document compliance; or\n(B) Graduated from a qualified massage school or course prior to October 1, 1995.\n(b) The board is authorized to promulgate rules that are necessary to effectuate this section.","path":["TN Code","Title 63","Chapter 18"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"5136ad272896e80d6ae1a15d0e7e1a2677b12a8d434fd8bb6e1642f3598d2202","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-63-18-115","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-63-19-101","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}