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Committee releases bill extending private career-school closure rules to cosmetology programs
Summary
The Brigadier Professionals Committee released Assembly Bill 1929, which would apply existing private career‑school closure requirements to certain schools licensed by the New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling and require a model teach‑out plan; an amendment removed a fixed deadline and changed the effective date.
The Brigadier Professionals Committee voted to release Assembly Bill 1929, which would make provisions of current law governing the closure of private career schools apply to certain schools licensed by the New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling, and would require the board to develop a model teach‑out plan to be used in submissions to the commissioner of labor and workforce development.
The bill, as amended, removes the previously proposed September 1, 2023, deadline for the board to develop the model teach‑out plan and changes the effective date to the first day of the sixth month after enactment. The amendment was adopted and the bill was released from committee by roll call vote.
Committee staff read the bill’s provisions into the record, including the requirement that the board develop a model teach‑out plan for private career schools licensed by the cosmetology board. Support was recorded from Eileen Kane of the New Jersey Association of Cosmetology and Hair Styling Schools, Althea Ford of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, and Laura Gunn representing the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey (CAT); each registered in favor and indicated no need to testify. No additional testimony was offered during the committee’s consideration.
On the motion to amend and release, the committee answered by roll call with affirmative votes recorded from Assemblyman Sharpenberger; Assemblyman Meyer (for Assemblyman Keane); Assemblywoman McCann Stomato; Assemblywoman Lopez (for Assemblyman Hutchison); Assemblywoman Coyosis Gill; Assemblywoman McCoy (for Vice Chair Swates); and Chair Stanley. The committee chair announced that “the bill as amended is released.”
With the bill released from committee, the next procedural step is not specified in the committee record; the transcript does not state a scheduled floor date or additional committee referrals.
