WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2017 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 93

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced February 8, 2017; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 24, 2016, authorized under the authority of section six, article twenty-seven, chapter thirty of this code, modified by the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on January 19, 2017, relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists (Continuing Education, 3 CSR 11), is authorized with the amendments set forth below:

On page 1, subsection 1.1 to read as follows:

Scope. – The legislative rule establishes requirements for continuing education to practice hair styling, barbering, cosmetology, manicuring/nail technology, and aesthetics. All persons licensed by the Board to practice beauty culture must earn a minimum of four (4) hours of continuing education credits annually. Licensees who have been licensed for twenty (20) years or more are exempt from the continuing education requirements but must take a three (3) hour sanitation class every other year.

And;

On page 3, subsection 4.4 to read as follows:

4.4 Licensees who have been licensed for twenty (20) years or more are exempt from the continuing education requirements but must take a three (3) hour sanitation class every other year.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Continuing Education.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.