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House regulations subcommittee approves slate of agency rule changes, from pharmacy wording fix to cosmetology licensing tweaks
Summary
The House Regulations Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Committee approved a package of administrative regulation updates affecting the State Board of Pharmacy, cosmetology and barbering licensure, athletic commission event rules, continuing-education requirements for several boards, and sanitation and scope changes for aestheticians.
The House Regulations Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Committee approved a set of agency regulation updates during a committee meeting, voting unanimously on multiple documents that revise technical language, continuing-education rules and practice limits across several licensure boards.
The measures, each approved by a 7-0 roll call, include a scrivener's correction at the State Board of Pharmacy, streamlined continuing-education approvals for opticians, new disciplinary and event rules for the State Athletic Commission, updated suicide-prevention training requirements for social workers and counselors, expanded endorsement pathways for out-of-state cosmetology applicants, and revised sanitation and scope rules for aestheticians.
Why it matters: most changes are technical or procedural but affect professional licensing, scope of practice, and public-safety or consumer-protection details. Several items implement statutory changes from the 2024 Legislature, clarify what licensed practitioners may perform, or adjust board review processes that affect thousands of licensees.
Committee action and highlights
- Pharmacy: Document 5339 (State Board of Pharmacy) corrected a cross-reference error, replacing an incorrect reference to a "manufacturer's permit" with the correct term "wholesale distributor permit." The subcommittee recommended approval; the full committee approved the regulation 7-0.
- Opticianry: Document 5272 (South Carolina Board of Examiners in Opticianry) removed outdated or duplicative provisions, simplified continuing-education (CE) approvals by deeming certain nationally approved technical courses acceptable without individual board approval, clarified that out-of-state law courses are not accepted, and allowed up to one hour of practice or retail-management CE. The committee approved the change 7-0.
- Athletic events: Document 5351 (State Athletic Commission) updates event rules after the commission's five-year review. The changes list unauthorized…
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