Bill Text: TX HB3307 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of barbering and cosmetology.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB3307 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3307-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Kuempel | H.B. No. 3307 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3307: | |||
By: Kuempel | C.S.H.B. No. 3307 |
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relating to the regulation of barbering and cosmetology. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 1601, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1601.0025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1601.0025. SERVICES NOT CONSTITUTING BARBERING. | ||
Notwithstanding Section 1601.002, "barbering," "practicing | ||
barbering," and "practice of barbering" do not include 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. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1602.002(a), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this chapter, "cosmetology" means the practice 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 as a | ||
primary service, including arranging, beautifying, bleaching, | ||
cleansing, coloring, cutting, dressing, dyeing, processing, | ||
shampooing, shaping, singeing, straightening, styling, tinting, or | ||
waving; | ||
(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) shampooing and conditioning a person's hair; | ||
(3) servicing a person's wig or artificial hairpiece | ||
on a person's head or on a block after the initial retail sale and | ||
servicing in any manner listed in Subdivision (1); | ||
(4) treating a person's mustache or beard by | ||
arranging, beautifying, coloring, processing, styling, trimming, | ||
or shaving with a safety razor; | ||
(5) cleansing, stimulating, or massaging a person's | ||
scalp, face, neck, 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; | ||
(6) beautifying a person's face, neck, or arms using a | ||
cosmetic preparation, antiseptic, tonic, lotion, powder, oil, | ||
clay, cream, or appliance; | ||
(7) administering facial treatments; | ||
(8) removing superfluous hair from a person's body | ||
using depilatories, preparations or chemicals, tweezers, or other | ||
devices or appliances of any kind or description [ |
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(9) treating a person's nails by: | ||
(A) cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, | ||
coloring, cleansing, or manicuring; or | ||
(B) attaching false nails; | ||
(10) massaging, cleansing, treating, or beautifying a | ||
person's hands or feet; | ||
(11) applying semipermanent, thread-like extensions | ||
composed of single fibers to a person's eyelashes; or | ||
(12) weaving a person's hair. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 1602, Occupations Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 1602.0025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1602.0025. SERVICES NOT CONSTITUTING COSMETOLOGY. | ||
Notwithstanding Section 1602.002(a), "cosmetology" does not | ||
include 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. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |