Citizen Portal
Sign In

Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!

Committee advances bill to remove licensure requirement for makeup artists

2664330 · February 17, 2025
AI-Generated Content: All content on this page was generated by AI to highlight key points from the meeting. For complete details and context, we recommend watching the full video. so we can fix them.

Summary

The House Business Committee voted to send House Bill 121 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation. Sponsor Representative Jeff Ehlers said the licensure created in 2018 covers only a small number of practitioners and that there have been no consumer complaints in five years.

The House Business Committee voted Feb. 17 to send House Bill 121 to the full House with a recommendation of do pass. The bill, sponsored by Representative Jeff Ehlers, would remove the state licensure requirement for makeup artists under the barber and cosmetology code.

Representative Jeff Ehlers (R., Meridian), the bill sponsor, said the makeup-artist license, created in 2018, applies to a very small number of practitioners. "Currently there's only 36 licenses," Ehlers told the committee, and he said the Department of…

Already have an account? Log in

Subscribe to keep reading

Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.

  • Unlimited articles
  • AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
  • Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
  • Follow topics and more locations
  • 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
30-day money-back on paid plans