By Harris H.B. No. 2352
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2352:
By Berlanga C.S.H.B. No. 2352
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exemption from the application of certain
1-3 requirements related to the practice of cosmetology for persons who
1-4 provide services at a fashion photography studio.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 1036, Acts of the 62nd
1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 8451a, Vernon's Texas
1-8 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subdivision (5) to read as
1-9 follows:
1-10 (5) "Fashion photography studio" means a permanent
1-11 establishment at which a fee is charged exclusively for a
1-12 photographic sitting.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 39, Chapter 1036, Acts of the 62nd
1-14 Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 8451a, Vernon's Texas
1-15 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 39. Exemptions. (a) The following are exempt from the
1-17 provisions of this Act:
1-18 (1) service in the case of an emergency;
1-19 (2) persons licensed in this state to practice
1-20 medicine, surgery, dentistry, podiatry, osteopathy, chiropractic,
1-21 or nursing, and who are operating within the scope of their
1-22 license;
1-23 (3) a person engaged in the business of or receiving
2-1 compensation for makeup applications only;
2-2 (4) a person who acts as a barber regulated by the law
2-3 of this state if the person does not hold himself out as a
2-4 cosmetologist;
2-5 (5) a person volunteering services or an employee
2-6 performing regular duties at a licensed nursing or convalescent
2-7 custodial or personal care home when recipients of the services are
2-8 patients residing in the home; and
2-9 (6) a person who owns, operates, or manages a licensed
2-10 nursing or convalescent custodial or personal care home which
2-11 allows a person with an operator license to perform services for
2-12 patients residing in the home on an occasional but not daily basis.
2-13 (b) A person who provides incidental cosmetology services,
2-14 or who owns, operates, or manages the location at which those
2-15 services are provided, is exempt from the requirements of this Act
2-16 if the primary purpose of the services is to enable or assist the
2-17 recipient of the services to participate as the subject of:
2-18 (1) a photographic sitting at a fashion photography
2-19 studio;
2-20 (2) a television appearance; or
2-21 (3) the filming of a motion picture.
2-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-3 passage, and it is so enacted.