2020 -- H 7233 | |
======== | |
LC003037 | |
======== | |
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2020 | |
____________ | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, | |
PEDICURISTS, MANICURISTS, OR INDIVIDUAL MAKEUP APPLICATION SERVICES | |
| |
Introduced By: Representatives Place, Quattrocchi, Lyle, and Filippi | |
Date Introduced: January 22, 2020 | |
Referred To: House Health, Education & Welfare | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 5-10-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-10 entitled "Barbers, |
2 | Hairdressers, Cosmeticians, Manicurists and Estheticians" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 5-10-9. Classes of licenses. |
4 | (a) Licenses shall be divided into the following classes and shall be issued by the division |
5 | to applicants for the licenses who have qualified for each class of license: |
6 | (1) A "hairdresser's and cosmetician's license" shall be issued by the division to every |
7 | applicant for the license who meets the requirements of § 5-10-8 and has completed a course of |
8 | instruction in hairdressing and cosmetology consisting of not less than twelve hundred (1,200) |
9 | hours of continuous study and practice. |
10 | (2) An "instructor's license" shall be granted by the division to any applicant for the |
11 | license who has held a hairdresser's and cosmetician's license, a barber's license, a manicurist's |
12 | license, or an esthetician's license, issued under the laws of this state or another state, for at least |
13 | the three (3) years preceding the date of application for an instructor's license and: |
14 | (i) Meets the requirements of § 5-10-8; |
15 | (ii) Has satisfactorily completed three hundred (300) hours of instruction in hairdressing |
16 | and cosmetology, barber, manicurist, or esthetician teacher training approved by the division as |
17 | prescribed by regulation; |
18 | (iii) Has satisfactorily passed a written and a practical examination approved by the |
| |
1 | division to determine the fitness of the applicant to receive an instructor's license; |
2 | (iv) Has complied with § 5-10-10; and |
3 | (v) Has complied with any other qualifications that the division prescribes by regulation. |
4 | (3) A "manicurist license" shall be granted to any applicant for the license who meets the |
5 | following qualifications: |
6 | (i) Meets the requirements of § 5-10-8; and |
7 | (ii) Has completed a course of instruction, consisting of not less than three hundred (300) |
8 | hours of professional training in manicuring, in an approved school. |
9 | (4) An "esthetician license" shall be granted to any applicant for the license who meets |
10 | the following qualifications: |
11 | (i) Meets the requirements of § 5-10-8; |
12 | (ii) Has completed a course of instruction in esthetics, consisting of not less than six |
13 | hundred (600) hours of continuous study and practice over a period of not less than four (4) |
14 | months, in an approved school of hairdressing and cosmetology; and |
15 | (iii) Any applicant who holds a diploma or certificate from a skin-care school, that is |
16 | recognized as a skin-care school by the state or nation in which it is located, and meets the |
17 | requirements of subsection (4)(i) of this section, shall be granted a license to practice esthetics; |
18 | provided, that the skin-care school has a requirement that, in order to graduate from the school, a |
19 | student must have completed a number of hours of instruction in the practice of skin care, which |
20 | number is at least equal to the number of hours of instruction required by the division. |
21 | (5) A "barber" license shall be issued by the division to every applicant for the license |
22 | who meets the requirements of § 5-10-8 and: |
23 | (i) Has completed a course of instruction in barbering consisting of not less than one |
24 | thousand five hundred (1,500) hours of continuous study and practice in an approved school; |
25 | (ii) Has possessed, for at least two (2) years prior to the filing of the application, a |
26 | certificate of registration in full force and effect from the department of health of the state |
27 | specifying that person as a registered, apprentice barber, and the application of that applicant is |
28 | accompanied by an affidavit, or affidavits, from his or her employer, or former employers, or |
29 | other reasonably satisfactory evidence showing that the applicant has been actually engaged in |
30 | barbering as an apprentice barber in the state during those two (2) years; or |
31 | (iii) A combination of barber school training and apprenticeship training as determined |
32 | by the rules and regulations prescribed by the division. |
33 | (b) Any licensed barber, hairdresser, pedicurist, manicurist or individual providing |
34 | makeup application services may provide training to any unlicensed individual providing services |
| LC003037 - Page 2 of 4 |
1 | to the clients of the licensee at a location where the licensee is also providing services for a |
2 | training period of up to four (4) years. Any individual who completes the four (4) year training |
3 | period shall be entitled to apply for and receive a license upon certification by the licensee that |
4 | such a four (4) year training has been completed. |
5 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
======== | |
LC003037 | |
======== | |
| LC003037 - Page 3 of 4 |
EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, | |
PEDICURISTS, MANICURISTS, OR INDIVIDUAL MAKEUP APPLICATION SERVICES | |
*** | |
1 | This act would allow any licensed barber, hairdresser, pedicurist, manicurist, or |
2 | individual providing makeup application services to provide training services for individuals that |
3 | presently do not have such a license, and upon the completion of a four (4) year training period, |
4 | the trainee shall be entitled to receive a license. |
5 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
======== | |
LC003037 | |
======== | |
| LC003037 - Page 4 of 4 |