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Senate committee hears wide debate on permanent-cosmetics bill, stops short of final action
Summary
Lawmakers and industry witnesses debated changes to Arkansas rules for permanent cosmetics and body art, including stricter training, a 1:8 instructor-student ratio, increased clock hours and reduced online instruction; opponents warned the changes could price out students and shrink the workforce. No final committee vote was taken.
Senator Bridal Davis, sponsor of Senate Bill 392, told the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that the bill primarily cleans up language from Act 900 of 2021 and reunites regulation of permanent cosmetics with other body-art rules while adding programmatic safeguards. "We have been working with the industry and with the Department of Health for, I mean, probably 10 months now," she said in presenting the measure.
The bill would add two seats to the cosmetology technical advisory committee to represent tattooing and piercing artists, change the instructor-to-student ratio to no more than 1-to-8, increase training from 375 to 400 clock hours…
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