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  By: Turner of Tarrant, Metcalf, et al. H.B. No. 2843
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2843:
 
  By:  Turner of Tarrant C.S.H.B. No. 2843
 
 
 
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.