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Committee deadlocks on amendment to cut cosmetology training hours; amendment fails to advance
Summary
Lawmakers debated reducing cosmetology training from 1,500 hours to 1,000 hours and a chairman's amendment to set 1,251 hours. The amendment produced a 5-5 tie in committee and was not advanced; no final change to the training-hour requirement was adopted at the meeting.
A House committee debated a bill proposing lower training-hour requirements for cosmetology students and failed to advance a chairman's amendment that would have set the requirement at 1,251 hours.
Representative Westco, the bill sponsor, told the Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee the industry has been split over how many training hours should be required and disputed a statistic circulated by opponents. "That is a false statistic," Westco said, referring to figures he said mixed consumer complaints with criminal-history checks. He said the number of consumer complaints had "remained steady or decreased."
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