I’m attending the TN Massage Board meeting in Nashville today. 6

Notes:
*12/31/12: 4395 LMTs & 1599 LMEs.
*DOH Office of General Counsel: l23 open cases.
*Budget: $742,702 revenue & $463,537 expenses.
*Discussed & provided guidelines to OGC for increasing fines when initial Agreed Citation is not agreed to & OGC becomes actively involved.
*8 of 11 CE Waiver Requests denied.
*Lighthouse was re-approved to provide the practitioner assistance program.
*in response to correspondence, Board discussed teaching massage to couples/partners/friends, and came to a consensus that it does not endorse LMTs doing this.