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SB1563 - 572R - S Ver
Senate Engrossed
barbering and
cosmetology board; continuation
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
SENATE BILL 1563
AN
ACT
amending section 32-507, Arizona
Revised Statutes; Repealing section 32-512.02, Arizona Revised Statutes;
amending title 32, chapter 5, ARTICLE 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding a
new section 32-512.02; Repealing section 41-3026.06, Arizona
Revised Statutes; amending title 41, chapter 27, article 2, Arizona Revised
Statutes, by adding section 41-3034.06; Relating to the barbering and
cosmetology board.
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Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 32-507, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
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32-507.
Fees
A. The board shall establish and collect fees not to
exceed the following:
1. Application for initial personal license, a
onetime fee of
$100
$80
.
2. Application for personal reciprocity or universal
license, a onetime fee of
$200
$100
.
3. Application for establishment license, including
change of
name, change of
ownership
and change of location
,
$250
$200
.
4. Application for school license and initial
inspection fee, including change of
name, change of
ownership
and change of location, $1,000.
5. Application for certification of licensure or
hours, $30.
6. Personal license renewal,
$100
$80
to be paid once every two years pursuant to section
32-517 or 32-535.
7. Personal license delinquent renewal,
$150
$100
.
8. Establishment license after a
change of location, $150.
9.
8.
Establishment license renewal,
$100
$80
.
10.
9.
Establishment
license delinquent renewal,
$150
$100
.
11.
10.
School license renewal,
$500
$400
.
12.
11.
School license delinquent renewal,
$600
$500
.
13.
12.
Delinquent penalties for each year or portion of
a year for which the license was
inactive
expired
.
14.
13.
Computer printouts of names of licensees, up to
$.10 per name.
15.
14.
Duplicate license, $30.
16.
15.
Dishonored checks, $20.
17.
16.
Copying charges, $1 per page. For
audiotapes, videotapes, computer discs or other mediums used for recording
sounds, images or information, $15 per tape, disc or other medium.
18.
17.
Board-administered educational classes,
$100
$75
.
19.
18.
Service charges for persons who pay with
alternative payment methods, including credit cards, charge cards, debit cards
and electronic transfers, not to exceed the cost of the alternative payment
method.
20.
19.
Eyelash technician registration, an amount to be
determined by the board.
21.
20.
Eyelash technician registration renewal, an
amount to be determined by the board.
22.
21.
Eyelash technician registration delinquent
renewal, an amount to be determined by the board.
B. The board may
charge additional fees for:
1. Documents and
publications provided by the board.
2. Services that the board deems appropriate to
carry out its intent and purpose. These additional fees shall not exceed the
costs of rendering the services.
END_STATUTE
Sec. 2.
Repeal
Section 32-512.02, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is repealed.
Sec. 3. Title 32, chapter 5, article 2, Arizona
Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section 32-512.02, to read:
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32-512.02.
Barbers; licensure; applications; qualifications
a. A person is entitled to receive a
barber license if the person does all of the following:
1. Submits to the BOARD an
application for a barber license on a form supplied by the board.
2. Either:
(
a
) Submits
satisfactory evidence that the person is at least sixteen years old and has
completed and received appropriate credits for at least two years of high
school education or its equivalent as prescribed in rules adopted by the board.
(
b
) Submits to
the board satisfactory evidence that the person is at least eighteen years of
age.
3. Submits to the board satisfactory
evidence that the person meets any of the following:
(
a
) Graduated
from a barbering school in another state or country that had substantially the
same requirements for schools licensed by the board at the time of the person's
graduation.
(
b
) Completed a
barbering course consisting of at least one thousand two hundred hours of
training in a school licensed by the board.
(
c
) completed a
united states department of labor-approved or a department of economic
security-approved apprenticeship program in barbering that includes at
least two hundred fifty hours of infection protection law review
instruction. The person shall complete the instruction required by
this subdivision through either:
(
i
) a school
that is licensed by the board or a school or program in another state that has,
in the board's opinion, licensure requirements that are substantially
equivalent to the requirements of this state.
(
ii
) a
department of economic security-approved apprenticeship program.
4. Pays the prescribed fees for a
barber license.
5. Passes the examinations for a
barber license.
b. Notwithstanding subsection a,
paragraphs 2 and 3 of this section, an applicant for a barber license who holds
a cosmetologist license or a hairstylist license issued pursuant to this
chapter shall complete a two hundred-hour course consisting of barbering
techniques in a school licensed by the board.
END_STATUTE
Sec. 4.
Repeal
Section 41-3026.06, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is repealed.
Sec. 5. Title 41, chapter 27, article 2,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-3034.06, to read:
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41-3034.06.
Barbering and cosmetology board; termination July 1, 2034
A. The barbering and cosmetology
board terminates on July 1, 2034.
B. Title 32, chapter 5 and this
section are repealed on JANUARY 1, 2035.
END_STATUTE
Sec. 6.
Purpose
Pursuant to section 41-2955,
subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, the legislature continues the barbering
and cosmetology board to ensure the public is protected from the incompetent
practice of barbering and cosmetology by establishing minimum qualifications
for entry into these professions and swift and effective discipline for those
practitioners who violate barbering or cosmetology statutes or rules adopted
pursuant to those statutes.
Sec. 7.
Retroactivity
Sections
4 and 5 of this act apply retroactively to from and after
July 1, 2026.