| Chapter 261 |
| 2023 -- H 6523 Enacted 06/22/2023 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS AND ESTHETICIANS |
Introduced By: Representatives O'Brien, Dawson, Craven, Caldwell, Finkelman, Corvese, Kazarian, and McEntee |
| Date Introduced: June 14, 2023 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 5-10-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-10 entitled "Barbers, |
| Hairdressers, Cosmeticians, Manicurists and Estheticians" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 5-10-9. Classes of licenses. |
| Licenses shall be divided into the following classes and shall be issued by the division to |
| applicants for the licenses who have qualified for each class of license: |
| (1) A “hairdresser’s and cosmetician’s license” shall be issued by the division to every |
| applicant for the license who meets the requirements of § 5-10-8 and has completed a course of |
| instruction in hairdressing and cosmetology consisting of not less than twelve hundred (1,200) one |
| thousand (1,000) hours of continuous study and practice. |
| (2) An “instructor’s license” shall be granted by the division to any applicant for the license |
| who has held a hairdresser’s and cosmetician’s license, a barber’s license, a manicurist’s license, |
| or an esthetician’s license, issued under the laws of this state or another state, for at least the three |
| (3) years preceding the date of application for an instructor’s license and: |
| (i) Meets the requirements of § 5-10-8; |
| (ii) Has satisfactorily completed three hundred (300) hours of instruction in hairdressing |
| and cosmetology, barber, manicurist, or esthetician teacher training approved by the division as |
| prescribed by regulation; |
| (iii) Has satisfactorily passed a written and a practical examination approved by the |
| division to determine the fitness of the applicant to receive an instructor’s license; |
| (iv) Has complied with § 5-10-10; and |
| (v) Has complied with any other qualifications that the division prescribes by regulation. |
| (3) A “manicurist license” shall be granted to any applicant for the license who meets the |
| following qualifications: |
| (i) Meets the requirements of § 5-10-8; and |
| (ii) Has completed a course of instruction, consisting of not less than three hundred (300) |
| hours of professional training in manicuring, in an approved school. |
| (4) An “esthetician license” shall be granted to any applicant for the license who meets the |
| following qualifications: |
| (i) Meets the requirements of § 5-10-8; |
| (ii) Has completed a course of instruction in esthetics, consisting of not less than six |
| hundred (600) hours of continuous study and practice over a period of not less than four (4) months, |
| in an approved school of hairdressing and cosmetology; and |
| (iii) Any applicant who holds a diploma or certificate from a skin-care school, that is |
| recognized as a skin-care school by the state or nation in which it is located, and meets the |
| requirements of subsection (4)(i) of this section, shall be granted a license to practice esthetics; |
| provided, that the skin-care school has a requirement that, in order to graduate from the school, a |
| student must have completed a number of hours of instruction in the practice of skin care, which |
| number is at least equal to the number of hours of instruction required by the division. |
| (5) A “barber” license shall be issued by the division to every applicant for the license who |
| meets the requirements of § 5-10-8 and: |
| (i) Has completed a course of instruction in barbering consisting of not less than one |
| thousand five hundred (1,500) hours of continuous study and practice in an approved school; |
| (ii) Has possessed, for at least two (2) years prior to the filing of the application, a certificate |
| of registration in full force and effect from the department of health of the state specifying that |
| person as a registered, apprentice barber, and the application of that applicant is accompanied by |
| an affidavit, or affidavits, from his or her employer, or former employers, or other reasonably |
| satisfactory evidence showing that the applicant has been actually engaged in barbering as an |
| apprentice barber in the state during those two (2) years; or |
| (iii) A combination of barber school training and apprenticeship training as determined by |
| the rules and regulations prescribed by the division. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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