THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY GILLESPIE, D. COSTA, FLECK AND GIBBONS, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011  

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 in the Department of State; providing for appeals to

certain courts by applicants and licensees; and providing

penalties," further providing for eligibility for

examination.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 4 of the act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242,

No.86), referred to as the Cosmetology Law, amended July 7, 2006

(P.L.704, No.99), is amended to read:

Section 4.  Eligibility Requirements for Examination.--No

person shall be permitted by the board to take an examination to

receive a license as a cosmetologist unless such person (1)

shall be at least sixteen years of age and of good moral

character at the time of making application, and (2) shall have

completed a tenth grade education or the equivalent thereof, or

in lieu of such education or the equivalent thereof shall have

received training from or under the auspices of the Bureau of

Rehabilitation in the Department of Labor and Industry, and (3)

shall have either (i) completed not less than one thousand two

hundred fifty hours as a student in a duly registered school of

cosmetology as hereinafter provided in this act, or (ii) shall

have been registered and served as an apprentice at least two

thousand hours in a licensed cosmetology salon as hereinafter

provided in this act. The application shall be accompanied by a

notarized statement from either the licensed cosmetology school

the applicant attended or the licensed cosmetology teacher in

the licensed cosmetology salon where the applicant studied and

trained, stating that the applicant has completed the study and

training period required under this act. No person shall be

permitted to take an examination for a license to teach

cosmetology or natural hair braiding, nail technology or

esthetics unless such person shall have a license to practice

cosmetology or a limited license, be at least eighteen years of

age, shall have completed a twelfth grade education or the

equivalent thereof and have had five hundred hours of

specialized training as set forth in section 6 of this act which

hours shall be in addition to the hours necessary to qualify for

a license to practice cosmetology or a limited license.

Notwithstanding clause (3)(i), an applicant shall be permitted

to take the theoretical part of the examination upon completion

of at least nine hundred hours of instruction in a duly

registered school of cosmetology.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.