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Senator amendment adopted to clarify salon training while committee lowers licensure ages in strike‑and‑insert for HB 47 93
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Summary
The Senate committee adopted a strike‑and‑insert to HB 47 93 that combines prior cosmetology and apprenticeship measures, lowers some licensure and apprenticeship ages, expands apprenticeship sponsor criteria, and adopted an amendment to clarify that salon trainees operate under general supervision rather than being exempted from licensure.
The Senate Committee on Government Organization considered a strike‑and‑insert amendment to House Bill 47 93 that combines provisions from three prior measures governing cosmetology, apprenticeships and related occupational licensing.
Committee counsel explained the strike‑and‑insert: it creates a new definition of 'apprentice' for barber, cosmetology and related trades; lowers the professional licensure age from 18 to 16 for applicants who have completed at least the tenth grade; lowers the minimum age for certain barber or cosmetologist apprenticeships from 16 to 14; and expands apprentice sponsor requirements to require sponsor certification (rather than only licensure). Counsel described the amendment as incorporating provisions from Senate Bills 486 and 654 and carrying technical adjustments.
During debate, the senator from Jefferson expressed concern that certain language in the salon training program could be read to exempt trainees from licensure. The senator said, “I think unfortunately this language some people were interpreting that we were exempting them from licensure. And so I think this clarifies it.” The senator proposed an amendment to remove the enumerated list of services ("shampooing, cutting, coloring and styling hair") from the training‑program sentence so that the statute instead requires salons that register with the board to employ persons to provide services "under the general supervision of a licensee who regularly provides the services." Committee counsel read the amendment back and an exchange followed clarifying that the salon training program requires supervised training and does not create a licensure exemption.
Delegate Teresa Howe, the House sponsor present in committee, explained the bill’s intent: to provide opportunity for youth and to expand apprentice categories at the request of the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists. She told the committee that stakeholders in the industry asked her to present the bill and that the salon training program concept had been considered previously in the House. On the floor the committee adopted the senator’s amendment and then voted by voice to report HB 47 93 to the full Senate with a recommendation that it do pass as amended.
The committee’s action does not itself change law; it reports the strike‑and‑insert and adopted amendment to the full Senate for further consideration. Implementation questions—such as the sponsor and board procedures to register salons and document apprentice competency logs—will be addressed in rulemaking and by the board if the bill becomes law.
