Barbering and cosmetology.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific information on when the act will become effective or what happens if someone breaks the new rules about telling customers their licensure status.

Changes to Barbering and Cosmetology Licensing

AB-625 removes hairstyling licenses, updates practices for barbers and cosmetologists, requires notice of licensure status, and makes nonsubstantive changes to the Business and Professions Code.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the requirement for a license to practice as a hairstylist.
• Changes what activities are considered part of barbering and cosmetology by removing certain hair care practices from these categories.
• Requires people who do specific hair treatments at an establishment to tell customers if they have a valid license.

Who It Names or Affects

• People working in barbering, cosmetology, or hairstyling businesses.
• Customers who receive hair treatments at establishments.

Terms To Know

Licensure

A certificate that allows someone to legally work in a specific job or profession.

State-mandated local program

When the state requires local governments to do something, which can sometimes cost them money.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify when it will start.
• It doesn't explain how people without a hairstyling license should work after this change.
• There are no details on what happens if someone breaks the new rules about telling customers their licensure status.

Official Summary Text

AB 625, as amended, Nguyen.
Business and Professions Code.
Barbering and cosmetology.
The Barbering and Cosmetology Act provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of barbering, cosmetology, and hairstyling by the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and makes liable for a misdemeanor a person, firm, association, or corporation that violates the act unless a specific penalty is otherwise provided. The act requires the board to admit to examination for a license as a hairstylist to practice hairstyling a person who has made application to the board in proper form, paid the fee required by the act, and meets certain qualifications, including that the person completed a course in hairstyling from a school approved by the board.
This bill would repeal those provisions relating to the license as a hairstylist and would make
conforming changes.
The act also includes in the practice of barbering certain practices, including shampooing, arranging, dressing, curling, and waving and also the practice of hairstyling of all textures of hair by standard methods that are current at the time of the hairstyling. The act includes in the practice of cosmetology certain practices, including arranging, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, shampooing, beautifying, or otherwise treating the hair of a person.
This bill would remove the practices described above from inclusion in the practices of barbering and cosmetology, respectively. The bill would require a person who engages in the practices of arranging, beautifying, cleansing, curling, dressing, shampooing, or waving the hair of a person at an establishment to provide notice to consumers of the person’s licensure status. By expanding the scope of the crime of violating the act, the bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law establishes the Business and Professions Code and prescribes general provisions for purposes of its interpretation.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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