By: Hernandez H.B. No. 2738

(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston)

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017; May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; May 21, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the hours of instruction provided in barbering and cosmetology schools.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 1603.351, Occupations Code, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:

(a-1) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission may adopt rules to:

(1) authorize a school licensed under this chapter, Chapter 1601, or Chapter 1602 to account for any hours of instruction completed under those chapters on the basis of clock hours or credit hours; and

(2) establish standards for determining the equivalency and conversion of clock hours to credit hours and credit hours to clock hours.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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