{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-455.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Occupations Code § 455.002","heading":"MASSAGE THERAPY AS HEALTH CARE SERVICE.","body":"(a) Massage therapy constitutes a health care service if the massage therapy is for therapeutic purposes. Massage therapy does not constitute the practice of chiropractic.\n(b) In this chapter, therapy or therapeutic procedures do not include:\n(1) the diagnosis or treatment of illness or disease; or\n(2) a service or procedure for which a license to practice medicine, chiropractic, physical therapy, or podiatry is required by law.\nActs 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.","path":["OCCUPATIONS CODE","TITLE 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS","SUBTITLE H. PROFESSIONS RELATED TO CERTAIN TYPES OF THERAPY","CHAPTER 455. MASSAGE THERAPY","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.455.htm#455.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:31Z","sha256":"8e937a8236e0dc0d5a74e476297e09de050e9de301f85c335386423e86a8a0ec","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-455.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-occupations-code-455.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}