By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1653
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to licenses required for certain acts performed within the
    1-2  practice of cosmetology.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 13, chapter 1036, Acts of
    1-5  the 62nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 8451a,
    1-6  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A person holding a specialty certificate may perform
    1-8  only the practice of cosmetology as defined in Paragraph (E), (F),
    1-9  or (G)<, or (H)> of Subdivision (3) of Section 1 of this Act.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Chapter 1036, Acts of the 62nd Legislature,
   1-11  Regular Session, 1971 (Article 8451a, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-12  Statutes), is amended by adding Section 13B to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 13B.  SHAMPOO-CONDITIONER SPECIALIST.  (a)  A person
   1-14  holding a shampoo-conditioner license may perform only the practice
   1-15  of cosmetology defined in Paragraph (H), Subdivision (3), Section 1
   1-16  of this Act.
   1-17        (b)  An applicant for a shampoo-conditioner specialist
   1-18  license must be at least 16 years of age and have completed the
   1-19  seventh grade or its equivalent.
   1-20        (c)  The application must be made on a form prescribed by the
   1-21  commission.
   1-22        (d)  The applicant is entitled to a shampoo-conditioner
   1-23  specialist license if the applicant possesses the qualifications
    2-1  enumerated in Subsection (b) of this section, pays a $35 license
    2-2  fee, and has not committed an act that constitutes a ground for
    2-3  denial of a license.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  Section 20A, Chapter 1036, Acts of the 62nd
    2-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 8451a, Vernon's Texas
    2-6  Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection (c) and by
    2-7  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    2-8        (c)  The applicant is entitled to a booth rental license if
    2-9  the applicant:
   2-10              (1)  pays the $45 license application fee <set by the
   2-11  commission in an amount reasonable and necessary to cover the costs
   2-12  of administering the booth rental licensing program>;
   2-13              (2)  shows compliance with the rules and regulations of
   2-14  the commission; and
   2-15              (3)  has not committed an act that constitutes a ground
   2-16  for denial of a license <or certificate>.
   2-17        (e)  A person licensed under this section must submit to the
   2-18  commission copies of the person's federal withholding taxes, social
   2-19  security taxes, unemployment taxes, or any other self-employment
   2-20  taxes.
   2-21        SECTION 4.  Section 34, Chapter 1036, Acts of the 62nd
   2-22  Legislature, Regular Session, 1971 (Article 8451a, Vernon's Texas
   2-23  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   2-24        Sec. 34.  Renewal Fees.  <(a)>  Renewal fees under this Act
   2-25  are:
    3-1          (1)  Operator or specialty license              $35;
    3-2          (2)  Instructor license                         $50;
    3-3          (3)  Manicurist license                         $35;
    3-4          (4)  Private beauty school license     $200 per year; <and>
    3-5          (5)  Beauty or specialty shop license       $45; and
    3-6          (6)  Booth rental license                       $45.
    3-7        <(b)  The commission by rule shall establish the renewal fee
    3-8  for a booth rental license.>
    3-9        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-15  passage, and it is so enacted.