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Senate approves bill allowing unlicensed shampooing and blow‑drying with enforcement and signage requirements
Summary
On Jan. 22 the Utah Senate passed SB87 to allow shampooing and blow‑drying without a cosmetology license, while prohibiting cutting or coloring and adding enforcement tools (a $500 civil penalty and cease‑and‑desist authority); third‑reading vote 23‑3 with 3 absent.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 22 passed Senate Bill 87, a professional‑licensing amendment that would let individuals perform shampooing and blow‑drying without holding a cosmetology license while explicitly prohibiting cutting, coloring, perming or other licensed acts.
Sponsor Senator Bramble characterized the measure as a narrow change to allow activities like shampooing and blow‑drying in limited settings. “It just says that, someone can do a shampoo, shampooing and blow drying without needing to have a license,” he said on the floor, and repeatedly emphasized the bill does not…
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