Legislative Overview

Legislative Watch provides an overview of bills introduced in each state since January 2021, as well as links to the actual legislation. 

 

Each bill contains stated and unstated reasons for its creation, like sex-trafficking, risk to public safety, high use by the public, or special-interest group control.

 

The impetus for bills can be well-intentioned—all of us want to end the horror of human trafficking—yet legislators often have limited knowledge or understanding of Reiki practice and/or the fact that human trafficking may be part of organized crime and not a single incident. Reiki practitioners and other complementary practices end up being unfairly targeted.

How this impacts you, your clients, and your students

 State licensing boards, knowing little or nothing about Reiki practice, yet will determine how you practice.

Inadequate representation on licensing boards is the norm

  • One or two members represent a dozen or more unique therapies.

  • Reiki, alone, has more than 150 different practice styles.

Licensing and educational requirements

  • increase the cost of practice

  • reduce the number of practitioners

  • increase costs for consumers

  • generate unnecessary barriers with higher fees to practice

  • increase unemployment

  • discriminate against low wage earners, women and people of color

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To learn of new bills
in your state, see the following link to find your state legislature’s website
https://www.congress.gov/state-legislature-websites

 

On your legislature site,
you will find information about your state legislative process, proposed bills, legislators’ information, meetings, and announcements.

 

To find legislators in any state, use this link:
https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/

 

Why it’s important to be vigilant

Proposed bills introduced into the legislature are not announced to the public.  Most state legislatures have deadlines for filing bills, however an emergency bills can be introduced at any time.  Any bill can be classified as an emergency bill.