| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the examinations required for a barbering or |
|
|
cosmetology license. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 1603.252(a), Occupations Code, is |
|
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
|
(a) The department may accept, approve, develop, or |
|
|
contract for the examinations required by this chapter, including |
|
|
the administration of the examinations. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Section 1603.255, Occupations Code, is amended |
|
|
to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 1603.255. EARLY EXAMINATION. The department may |
|
|
allow for the early written examination of a student who has |
|
|
completed the following number of hours of instruction in a |
|
|
department-approved training program: |
|
|
(1) 1,000 hours for a student seeking a Class A barber |
|
|
certificate [or operator license] in a private barber [or
|
|
|
cosmetology] school; [or] |
|
|
(2) 900 hours for a student seeking a Class A barber |
|
|
certificate [or operator license] in a publicly funded barber [or
|
|
|
cosmetology] school; or |
|
|
(3) 1,000 hours, including 150 hours in sanitation and |
|
|
safety, for a student seeking an operator license in a private |
|
|
beauty culture school or a public secondary or postsecondary beauty |
|
|
culture school. |
|
|
SECTION 3. Section 1603.256(c), Occupations Code, is |
|
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
|
(c) The following persons may administer a practical |
|
|
examination required under this subchapter: |
|
|
(1) the department; [or] |
|
|
(2) a person with whom the department contracts under |
|
|
Section 1603.252; |
|
|
(3) a barber school, private beauty culture school, or |
|
|
public secondary or postsecondary beauty culture school that is |
|
|
approved by the department to administer the examination under |
|
|
Section 1603.252; or |
|
|
(4) the Windham School District. |
|
|
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Section |
|
|
1603.255, Occupations Code, apply only to a person who applies to |
|
|
take an early examination for a barbering or cosmetology license on |
|
|
or after the effective date of this Act. A person who applies to |
|
|
take an early examination before the effective date of this Act is |
|
|
governed by the law in effect on the date the person applies, and |
|
|
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
|
|
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |