This memorandum provides a summary of the two recently enacted state statutes and their impact on the City’s existing massage business licensing regulations. I have reviewed HB 24-1371 and SB 25-146 against the requirements of Sections 11-230 through 11-245 of the Wheat Ridge Code of Laws. Both bills involve more than massage licensing, but the result is to impose fingerprint verification on local licensing of massage operations. The two bills purport to declare the regulation of massage businesses a matter of state interest, thus requiring home rule cities, including Wheat Ridge, to comply with its provisions. I believe: (i) it is likely that a court would hold this is a matter of statewide concern or at the very least a mixed local, state, concern, and (ii) complying with the statute will not require major changes to the City's massage business licensing and enforcement program.