WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
ENROLLED
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 2347
By Delegates Howell, Maynard, walters, mcgeehan, C. miller, sypolt, westfall, hamrick, higginbotham, harshbarger and atkinson
[Passed March 11, 2017; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia,1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-27-15, relating to allowing schools licensed to provide barber, cosmetology and related training to hold theory classes and clinical classes at separate locations; and prohibiting schools licensed to provide barber, cosmetology and related training from being established within the same physical structure as a salon, spa, or similar business.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia,1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-27-15, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 27. BOARD OF BARBERS AND COSMETOLOGISTS.
§30-27-15. Schools may provide certain classes at different locations.
A licensed school may provide clinical instruction and theory instruction in separate locations. Any school authorized under this article cannot be established within the same physical structure as a salon, spa or similar business licensed under W. Va. Code § 30-27-17.