Bill Text: TX HB2738 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the hours of instruction provided in barbering and cosmetology schools.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2738 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2738-Introduced.html

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85R9079 TSR-D
By: Hernandez H.B. No. 2738

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the hours of instruction provided in barbering and
cosmetology schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1603.351, Occupations Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission may
adopt rules to:
(1) authorize a school licensed under this chapter,
Chapter 1601, or Chapter 1602 to account for any hours of
instruction completed under those chapters on the basis of clock
hours or credit hours; and
(2) establish standards for determining the
equivalency and conversion of clock hours to credit hours and
credit hours to clock hours.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.