Bill Text: TX HB845 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the hours of instruction required to be eligible for a cosmetology operator license.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-02 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB845 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB845-Introduced.html

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84R4570 TSR-D
By: Schaefer H.B. No. 845

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the hours of instruction required to be eligible for a
cosmetology operator license.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1602.254(b), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) To be eligible for an operator license, an applicant
must meet the requirements of Subsection (c) or:
(1) be at least 17 years of age;
(2) have obtained a high school diploma or the
equivalent of a high school diploma or have passed a valid
examination administered by a certified testing agency that
measures the person's ability to benefit from training; and
(3) have completed:
(A) 1,165 [1,500] hours of instruction in a
licensed beauty culture school; or
(B) 765 [1,000] hours of instruction in beauty
culture courses and 400 [500] hours of related high school courses
prescribed by the commission in a vocational cosmetology program in
a public school.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1602.254(b), Occupations Code, applies only to application for a
license submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. An
application for a license submitted before that date is governed by
the law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.