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SF0036 • 2025
Music therapy-use of title.
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing title protection for board certified music therapists; providing exceptions; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
Inactive
Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.
- Sponsor
- Labor
- Last action
- 2025-03-03
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2025
Plain English Breakdown
The official source material did not provide a bill summary text, which could have provided additional clarity or details.
Music Therapy Title Protection Act
The bill creates laws that protect the title 'board certified music therapist' and sets rules for using this title in Wyoming.
What This Bill Does
- Creates a new law to define what it means to be a board certified music therapist.
- Makes it illegal for someone to say they are a board certified music therapist unless they have the proper certification from the national certification board for music therapists.
- Allows people to use music without calling themselves a board certified music therapist if they do not claim to be one.
Who It Names or Affects
- Board certified music therapists
- People who want to call themselves board certified music therapists
Terms To Know
- board certified music therapist
- A person with a special certification from the national certification board for music therapists.
- certification board
- The national organization that gives out certifications to music therapists.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill did not pass and is now inactive.
- It does not affect people who use music but do not claim to be certified music therapists.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
SF0036SS001
Standing Committee • Senate Labor, Health and Social Services Committee
Adopted
Plain English: The amendment adds the term 'board certified' before references to music therapists in certain sections of the bill and defines a certification board for music therapists.
- Adds 'board certified' before 'Music therapist' where it appears on pages 1, 2, and 3 of the bill.
- Inserts a definition for 'certification board' as the National Certification Board for Music Therapists.
- Removes references to 'music therapist' without specifying 'board certified'.
- The amendment text does not provide details on how certification is obtained or what specific protections are granted.
Bill History
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2025-03-03
House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
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2025-02-28
House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
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2025-02-12
House
H Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor
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2025-01-24
House
H Received for Introduction
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2025-01-23
Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 17-13-1-0-0
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2025-01-22
Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
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2025-01-21
Senate
S COW:Passed
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2025-01-20
Senate
S Placed on General File
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2025-01-20
Senate
S10 - Labor:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 3-1-1-0-0
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2025-01-14
Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor
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2024-12-19
Senate
S Received for Introduction
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2024-12-10
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Current Bill Text
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25LSO-0132
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0132
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SENATE FILE NO. SF0036
Music therapy-use of title.
Sponsored by: Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing title protection for board certified music therapists; providing exceptions; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 33
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50
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101 and 33
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50
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102 are created to read:
CHAPTER 50
MUSIC THERAPISTS
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50
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101.
Definitions.
(a)
As used in this chapter:
(i)
"Board certified music therapist" means a person who holds an active music therapist board certified credential granted by the certification board for music therapists;
(ii)
"Music therapy" means the clinical and evidence based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals for persons of all ages and ability levels that are delivered during the course of a therapeutic relationship;
(iii)
"Certification board" means the national certification board for music therapists.
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50
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102.
Practice or use of title; exceptions.
(a)
It is unlawful for a person to profess to be a board certified music therapist or advertise in any form or hold themselves out to the public as a board certified music therapist or use the initials "MT
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BC" or any other words, letters, abbreviations or insignia indicating or implying that the person is a board certified music therapist unless the person holds and maintains a music therapist board certified credential granted by the certification board for music therapists.
(b)
This chapter shall not prohibit a person from using music if the person does not represent that they are a board certified music therapist.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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(END)
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