H. B. 3165
(By Delegate Talbott)
[Introduced March 23, 2005; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-27-3 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to barbers and cosmetologists; and
increasing the examination application fee.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §30-27-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 27. BOARD OF BARBERS AND COSMETOLOGISTS.
§30-27-3. Qualifications of applicants; fees; examinations;
licensure.
An applicant for licensure as a barber, beautician or
manicurist shall present satisfactory evidence that he or she is at
least eighteen years of age, of good moral character and temperate
habits, has completed at least the eighth grade of school, or the
equivalent thereof, and has been graduated from a school of
barbering or beauty culture approved by the state board of barbers and beauticians, or in the case of a manicurist has successfully
completed an approved course in manicuring in such a school, and
shall transmit with his or her application an examination fee of
twenty-five fifty dollars. The examination shall be of such
character as to determine the qualifications and fitness of the
applicant to practice barbering, beauty culture or manicuring as
defined by this article, and shall cover such subjects germane to
the inquiry as the board may deem considers proper. If an
applicant for licensure as a barber or beautician successfully
passes such examination and presents a certificate of health from
a licensed physician and is otherwise qualified as required by this
section, the board shall license the applicant as a duly qualified
barber or beautician. Any applicant for license as a manicurist
may be licensed as a duly qualified manicurist after he or she has
passed the examination. The board shall charge twenty-five dollars
for the issuance of a license.
The state board of barbers and beauticians shall promulgate
rules and regulations to establish a joint barber-beautician
license.
Any person who meets the requirements of this section as to
age, character and health, who is a graduate of a recognized school
of barbering or beauty culture in another state, or has
successfully completed an approved course in manicuring in such a
school, and who holds a current license as a registered barber, beautician or manicurist in another state, may file with the board
an application for licensure without examination, together with a
fee of fifty dollars. If in the opinion of the board such
applicant has had a prescribed course of instruction in barbering,
beauty culture or manicuring equivalent to that required in this
state at the time such course was completed, or is otherwise
properly qualified, the board may without examination issue to such
applicant a license as a duly qualified barber, beautician or
manicurist.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the examination
application fee for barbers and cosmetologists from $25. to $50.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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