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PRINTER'S NO. 236
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
256
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY WARD, DiSANTO AND VOGEL, JANUARY 27, 2017
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
JANUARY 27, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242, No.86), entitled, as
amended, "An act to promote the public health and safety by
providing for examination, licensing and granting of permits
for those who desire to engage in the profession of
cosmetology; defining cosmetology, and regulating cosmetology
salons, schools, students, apprentices, teachers, managers,
manicurists and cosmetologists; conferring powers and duties
upon the Commissioner of Professional and Occupational
Affairs of the Department of State; providing for appeals to
certain courts by applicants and licensees; and providing
penalties," further providing for definitions and for
sanitary rules.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1 of the act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242,
No.86), referred to as the Cosmetology Law, is amended by adding
a definition to read:
Section 1. Definitions.--The following words and phrases
when used in this act shall have the meanings given to them in
this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
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"Salon" means a licensed place, other than a school of
cosmetology, where cosmetology is practiced.
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Section 2. Section 14 of the act is amended to read:
Section 14. Sanitary Rules.--(a) The board shall prescribe
such sanitary rules as it may deem necessary, with particular
reference to the precautions necessary to be employed to prevent
the creating and spreading of infectious and contagious
diseases; and it shall be unlawful for the owner of any salon or
school of cosmetology to permit any person to sleep in or use
for residential purposes any room used wholly or in part as a
salon or school of cosmetology.
(b) Access to a lavatory for use by clients and employees
must be provided within the building in which any salon is
located. The physical location of the lavatory need not be
within the salon itself. Where a licensed salon establishment is
located in or as a part of a home or other building containing
living quarters, the portions thereof which are used for the
licensed practice of cosmetology may not be used as living,
dining or sleeping quarters.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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