Bill Text: NY A00552 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 552

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to defining the practice of esthetics to include eyebrow threading services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to economic development [A00552 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00552-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           552

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  defining  the
          practice of esthetics to include eyebrow threading services

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 400 of the general  business  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  509  of  the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    6. The practice of "esthetics" means  providing  for  a  fee,  or  any
     5  consideration  or  exchange,  whether  direct  or  indirect, services to
     6  enhance the appearance of the face, neck, arms, legs, and shoulders of a
     7  human being by the use of  compounds  or  procedures  including  makeup,
     8  eyelashes, depilatories, tonics, lotions, waxes, sanding [and], tweezing
     9  and eyebrow threading, whether performed by manual, mechanical, chemical
    10  or  electrical  means and instruments but shall not include the practice
    11  of electrology.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    14  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    15  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    16  on or before such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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