WEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 2347

By Delegates Howell, Maynard, walters, mcgeehan, miller, sypolt, westfall, hamrick, higginbotham, harshbarger and atkinson

[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization, February 15, 2017.]

A BILL 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.

 

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow schools licensed to provide barber, cosmetology and related training to hold theory classes and clinical classes at different locations and prohibit schools from being established in salons, spas, and similar locations.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.