88R11950 JTZ-D
 
  By: Thierry H.B. No. 3845
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1603.0011(a), Occupations Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The practices of barbering and cosmetology consist of
  performing or offering to perform for compensation any of the
  following services:
               (1)  treating a person's hair by:
                     (A)  providing any method of treatment in this
  section as a primary service, including [arranging, beautifying,]
  bleaching, [cleansing,] coloring, cutting, [dressing,] dyeing,
  processing, shaping, singeing, [straightening, styling,] tinting,
  or straightening or waving using reactive chemicals;
                     (B)  providing a necessary service that is
  preparatory or ancillary to a service under Paragraph (A),
  including bobbing, clipping, cutting, or trimming a person's hair
  or shaving a person's neck with a safety razor; or
                     (C)  cutting the person's hair as a separate and
  independent service for which a charge is directly or indirectly
  made separately from charges for any other service;
               (2)  treating a person's mustache or beard by
  arranging, beautifying, coloring, processing, styling, trimming,
  or shaving with a safety razor;
               (3)  cleansing, stimulating, or massaging a person's
  [scalp,] face, neck, shoulders, or arms:
                     (A)  by hand or by using a device, apparatus, or
  appliance; and
                     (B)  with or without the use of any cosmetic
  preparation, antiseptic, tonic, lotion, or cream;
               (4)  beautifying a person's face, neck, shoulders, or
  arms using a cosmetic preparation, antiseptic, tonic, lotion,
  powder, oil, clay, cream, or appliance;
               (5)  administering facial treatments;
               (6)  removing superfluous hair from a person's body
  using depilatories, preparations or chemicals, tweezers, or other
  devices or appliances of any kind or description;
               (7)  treating a person's nails by:
                     (A)  cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting,
  coloring, cleansing, manicuring, or pedicuring; or
                     (B)  attaching false nails; or
               (8)  massaging, cleansing, treating, or beautifying a
  person's hands or feet[; or
               [(9)  weaving a person's hair by using any method to
  attach commercial hair to a person's hair or scalp].
         SECTION 2.  Section 1603.0012, Occupations Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 1603.0012.  SERVICES NOT CONSTITUTING BARBERING OR
  COSMETOLOGY.  Barbering and cosmetology do not include:
               (1)  threading, which involves removing unwanted hair
  from a person by using a piece of thread that is looped around the
  hair and pulled to remove the hair and includes the incidental
  trimming of eyebrow hair; [or]
               (2)  servicing a person's wig, toupee, or artificial
  hairpiece on a person's head or on a block after the initial retail
  sale in any manner described by Section 1603.0011(a)(1); or
               (3)  blow-dry styling, which includes the practice of
  cleansing, conditioning, drying, arranging, curling,
  straightening, or styling hair using only mechanical devices, hair
  sprays, and topical agents, including balms, oils, and serums.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.