We need you to submit official testimony today - Monday July 29, 2024
Anytime prior to 6:00am Tuesday July 30th.
This is different from the email and calls you made last week.
Alone, snowflakes are fragile. But together can cause a powerful avalanche. Let's show them who we are, what we do, and be the avalanche. Share this with other LMTs, clients, friends, and family.
Below is a sample letter for you to use when writing your testimony. Please don't just copy/paste it. Chose 2-3 items you feel strongly about. Keep it short, factual, and too the point - not too much emotion.
Here is the link to submit https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=58119
It is pretty simple to submit, but here is a very detailed step by step if you need it.
click the "Submit Comments Online for LB1" button
click agree
fill out all the fields - including an email address you check often
you will be sent a link from Nebraska Legislature to verify your comments
if you don't verify they will not be submitted
If you don't know your legislative district there is a button to search
click representing yourself
click stance is opponent
add your written testimony
click I am not a robot
click submit
SAMPLE LETTER
Please don't just copy/paste it. Chose 2-3 items you feel strongly about. Keep it short, factual, and too the point - not too much emotion.
Esteemed Revenue Committee Members,
My name is_____ and I live in _______ and I oppose LB1 line 23 page 62 to tax massage therapy.
Nebraska defines massage therapy in the Nebraska Massage Therapy Practice Act https://dhhs.ne.gov/licensure/Documents/Massage%20Therapy.pdf
Legislature unanimously passed an updated definition of massage therapy in January 2024 and the governor signed it in February.
38-1706. Massage therapy, defined. Massage therapy means a health care service involving the physical, mechanical, or electrical manipulation of soft tissue for therapeutic purposes or to enhance wellness and may include the use of oil, salt glows, heat lamps, and hydrotherapy. Massage therapy does not include diagnosis or treatment or use of procedures for which a license to practice medicine or surgery, chiropractic, or podiatry is required nor the use of microwave diathermy, shortwave diathermy, ultrasound, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, electrical stimulation of over thirty-five volts, neurological hyperstimulation, or spinal and joint adjustments. Source:Laws2007,LB463,§613;Laws2024,LB78,§1.
All massage therapists in Nebraska are healthcare professionals regardless of where they work
Federal tax NAICS code for massage therapy in Nebraska is 621399 Offices of All other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners.
Nebraska does not tax health care per policy, and Gov Pillen has stated several times his tax plan would not tax healthcare
Although the initial intent of the bill is not to tax health care, it is certainly the impact. Not only would all massage therapists be taxed on all the therapies they provide, but so would many other health care professionals who provide “massage services” as part of their scope of practice.
Please strike line 23 on page 62 of LB1 to remove health care taxation from this bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration
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