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May 20, 2014
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The Honorable Susan Bonilla
Member, California State Assembly
State Capitol Building, Room 4140
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: AB 1147 (Bonilla, Gomez, Holden) Massage Therapy Act of 2014
(As amended on April 2014)
NOTICE OF SUPPORT
Dear Assembly Member Bonilla:
The City of San Luis Obispo supports your AB 1147, which would completely revise and
recast the law pertaining to massage therapy, including returning land use control back to the
cities.
AB 1147 allows local governments to enact ordinances that would require a certificated
massage establishment to obtain a license, permit or other authorization as long as that license,
permit or other authorization is required of any other individual or business providing
professional services. Having this authority returned will allow local governments to prevent
businesses operating under the auspices of massage therapy from engaging in prostitution and
human trafficking.
For these reasons, the City of San Luis Obispo supports AB 1147.
Sincerely,
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an Marx
Mayor
cc: City Council
Police Chief
Senator Bill Morning, fax 916-445-8081
Assembly Member Katcho Achadjian, fax 916-319-2135
David Mullinax, League of California Cities, dmullinax(c&cacities.or
Meg Desmond, League of California Cities, mdesmond(a),cacities.org