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Senate Bill 1170 |
Senate Author: Carona |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
House Sponsor: Hamilton |
Senate Bill 1170 amends Occupations Code provisions relating to the regulation of barbers and cosmetologists to require the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation to adopt rules providing for the issuance of a Class A barber certificate to a cosmetology operator licensee and the issuance of a cosmetology operator license to a Class A barber certificate holder. An applicant for a crossover license must meet certain training and examination requirements. The bill revises and harmonizes provisions governing age, education, and work experience eligibility requirements for a barber instructor license and a cosmetology instructor license. The bill establishes a shampoo apprentice permit, a barber technician/manicurist specialty license, a barber technician/hair weaving specialty license, an eyelash extension specialty license, and a manicurist/esthetician specialty license. The term "facialist" is replaced with the term "esthetician."
Current law allows cosmetology to be taught in public schools, and Senate Bill 1170 provides for barbering to be taught in public schools if certain permitting requirements are met. The bill authorizes the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) to allow for the early written examination of a student seeking a Class A barber certificate or cosmetology operator license in a publicly funded barber or cosmetology school who has completed 900 hours of instruction in a department-approved training program and retains current law authorizing the early written examination of a student seeking such a certificate or license in a private barber or cosmetology school who has completed 1,000 hours of such instruction. The bill decreases facilities and equipment requirements for certain barber schools and beauty culture schools based on the population of the political subdivision in which the facility is located, allowing a facility equipped for as few as 10 students under certain conditions. The bill revises provisions governing barber school instructors, including raising the required instructor-to-student instructor ratio from one-to-one to one-to-three. The bill limits the types of devices that may be used to clean, disinfect, and sterilize or sanitize each metal instrument before performing certain manicure and pedicure related services to include an autoclave or dry heat sterilizer and an ultraviolet sanitizer.
Senate Bill 1170 revises provisions setting out the requirements for the refund policy of a barber school and a beauty culture school by establishing that a refund is based on the period of the student's enrollment, computed on the basis of course time expressed in scheduled hours, rather than clock hours, as specified by an enrollment agreement, contract, or other document acceptable to TDLR. The bill requires TDLR to conduct a study that analyzes certain elements of the performance of barber schools and beauty culture schools, including the payment of refunds, make recommendations for improving the payment of refunds to eligible students, and report the study results to certain legislative committees by September 1, 2012.