Bill Text: MS HB527 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Cosmetology licensure laws; remove threading and applying and removing eyelash extensions from application of.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee [HB527 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-HB527-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services
By: Representative Hopkins
House Bill 527
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 73-7-2, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DELETE THREADING FROM THE DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS "COSMETOLOGY" AND "ESTHETICS" IN THE COSMETOLOGY LICENSE LAW; TO AMEND SECTION 73-7-31, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO EXEMPT FROM THE COSMETOLOGY LICENSURE LAW PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE PRACTICE OF THREADING AND PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE PRACTICE OF APPLYING OR REMOVING EYELASH EXTENSIONS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 73-7-2, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
73-7-2. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Board" means the State Board of Cosmetology.
(b) "Cosmetology" means any one (1) or a combination of the following practices if they are performed on a person's head, face, neck, shoulder, arms, hands, legs or feet for cosmetic purposes:
(i) Cutting, clipping or trimming hair and hair pieces.
(ii) Styling, arranging, dressing, curling, waving, permanent waving, straightening, cleansing, bleaching, tinting, coloring or similarly treating hair and hair pieces.
(iii) Cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, beautifying or applying oils, antiseptics, clays, lotions or other preparations, either by hand or by mechanical or electrical apparatus.
(iv) Arching
eyebrows, to include tweezing, waxing * * * or any other methods of epilation,
or tinting eyebrows and eyelashes.
(v) Removing superfluous hair by the use of depilation.
(vi) Manicuring and pedicuring.
(c) "Cosmetologist" means a person who for compensation, whether direct or indirect, engages in the practice of cosmetology.
(d) "Esthetics" means any one (1) or a combination of the following practices:
(i) Massaging the face or neck of a person.
(ii) Arching
eyebrows to include trimming, tweezing, waxing * * * or any other method of epilation or
tinting eyebrows and eyelashes.
(iii) Tinting eyelashes or eyebrows.
(iv) Waxing,
stimulating * * *
or cleaning * * * the face, neck, arms or legs of a person by any method
with the aid of the hands or any mechanical or electrical apparatus, or by the
use of a cosmetic preparation.
The term "esthetics" shall not include the diagnosis, treatment or therapy of any dermatological condition.
(e) "Esthetician" means any person who, for compensation, either direct or indirect, engages in the practice of esthetics.
(f) "Instructor" means a person licensed to teach cosmetology, or manicuring and pedicuring, or esthetics, or all of those, pursuant to this chapter, and shall include those persons engaged in the instruction of student instructors.
(g) "Manicuring and pedicuring" means any one (1) or a combination of the following practices:
(i) Cutting, trimming, polishing, coloring, tinting, cleansing or otherwise treating a person's nails.
(ii) Applying artificial nails.
(iii) Massaging or cleaning a person's hands, arms, legs or feet.
(h) "Manicurist" means a person who for compensation, either direct or indirect, engages in the practice of manicuring and pedicuring.
(i) "Master" means a person holding a cosmetology, manicuring and esthetics license who has completed the minimum course of continuing education prescribed by Section 73-7-14.
(j) "Salon" means an establishment operated for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, or manicuring and pedicuring, or esthetics, or wigology, or all of those.
(k) "School" means an establishment, public or private, operated for the purpose of teaching cosmetology, or manicuring and pedicuring, or esthetics, or wigology, or all of those.
SECTION 2. Section 73-7-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
73-7-31. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to:
(a) Hairdressing, manicuring or facial treatments given in the home to members of family or friends for which no charge is made.
(b) Persons whose practice is limited to the application of cosmetic products to another person in connection with the sale, or attempted sale, of such products at retail, without compensation from such other person other than the regular retail price of such merchandise.
(c) Barbers, and nothing in this chapter shall affect the jurisdiction of the State Board of Barber Examiners.
(d) Persons engaged in the practice of hair braiding as defined in Section 73-7-71 who have completed the self-test part of the brochure on infection control techniques prepared by the State Department of Health and who keep the brochure and completed self-test available at the location at which the person is engaged in hair braiding.
(e) Persons engaged in the practice of threading, which is defined as the removal of facial hair using a strand of thread.
(f) Persons engaged in the practice of applying or removing eyelash extensions, which is defined as gluing artificial eyelash extensions to natural eyelashes.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.
