AB 658

Barbering and cosmetology licensing

Under current law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Examining Board (board)

regulates the practices in this state of barbers and cosmetologists, aesthetists,

manicurists, electrologists, managers of establishments where any of those practices

are performed, and the establishments themselves. The board issues one license

that covers the practice of barbers and cosmetologists (barbering and cosmetology

license). The board also issues one manager license, which requires as a prerequisite

that the person holds a barbering and cosmetology license, and one license for

barbering and cosmetology establishment. The board issues separate licenses for

aesthetists, manicurists, and electrologists, defined below.

This bill establishes licensure requirements related to barbering that are

independent of the requirements related to cosmetology renames the board the

Cosmetology Examining Board, and creates the Barbering Examining Board for the

regulation of barbering in this state. Under the bill, the Cosmetology Examining

Board continues to regulate the practice of cosmetologists, aesthetists, manicurists,

and electrologists.

The members of the Barbering Examining Board are as follows:

1. Four members who are licensed barbers.

2. Two members who are public members.

3. One member who is a representative of a school of barbering.

The governor appoints the members of the Barbering Examining Board to serve

staggered four-year terms.

Current law defines barbering and cosmetology together as a practice that may

include one or more of the following services, if performed for compensation:

1. Arranging, styling, dressing, shampooing, cleansing, curling, dyeing,

tinting, coloring, bleaching, waving, cutting, shaving, trimming, relaxing, singeing,

or performing similar work upon the hair or beard of a person.

2. Aesthetics, which includes beautifying or cleansing or applying cosmetics,

oils, lotions, clay, creams, antiseptics, powders, or tonics to or massaging,

stimulating, wrapping, exercising, or performing similar work upon the skin of a

person.

3. Manicuring, which is cleansing, cutting, shaping, beautifying, or massaging

limited to the hands, feet, or nails of a person.

4. Removing a person's hair by means other than by use of an electric needle.

The removal of hair from the human body by use of an electric needle is electrology.

Under current law, a person who holds a barbering and cosmetology license, or

a licensed manager, may practice aesthetics and manicuring without being

separately licensed in those areas. The practice of electrology requires licensure as

an electrologist. Also under current law, a licensed manager may manage any

establishment where barbering and cosmetology, aesthetics, manicuring, or