Allows certain licensees of New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling to teach in private schools of cosmetology and hairstyling.

S3503

SENATE, No. 3503

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

SYNOPSIS

���� Allows certain licensees of New Jersey State Board of
Cosmetology and Hairstyling to teach in private schools of cosmetology and
hairstyling.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning teachers of cosmetology and hairstyling and
amending and supplementing P.L.1984, c.205.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 15 of P.L.1984,
c.205 (C.45:5B-15) is amended to read as follows:

���� 15.� In addition to any
practice declared unlawful pursuant to P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-14 et seq.), it
shall be unlawful for a licensed teacher to engage in the following practices:�

���� a.���� Advertise in a manner
which would tend to mislead potential students or consumers of cosmetology and
hairstyling, beauty culture, barbering, manicuring, hair braiding or skin care
specialty services offered in the school clinic;

���� b.��� Advertise, teach or
attempt to open a school under another person's name;

���� c.���� Knowingly permit
students to practice upon each other or members of the public while having an
infectious, contagious or communicable disease which could reasonably be
expected to be transmitted during the course of rendering cosmetology and
hairstyling, beauty culture, barbering, manicuring, hair braiding or skin care
specialty services;

���� d.��� Demonstrate cosmetology
and hairstyling, beauty culture, barbering, manicuring, hair braiding or skin
care specialty services on students while knowingly having an infectious,
contagious or communicable disease which could reasonably be expected to be transmitted
during the course of rendering cosmetology and hairstyling, beauty culture,
barbering, manicuring, hair braiding or skin care specialty services;

���� e.���� Engage in fraudulent
practices for the purpose of securing financial aid from any institution or
agency offering aid to students of cosmetology and hairstyling, beauty culture,
barbering, manicuring, hair braiding or skin care specialty;

���� f.���� Aid, abet or permit a
person not licensed pursuant to this act to teach any of the services included
in the definition of cosmetology and hairstyling, beauty culture, barbering,
manicuring, hair braiding or skin care specialty to registered students;

���� g.��� Teach cosmetology and
hairstyling, beauty culture, barbering, manicuring, hair braiding or skin care
specialty in a manner which is unsatisfactory or unsafe;

���� h.��� Fail to display in a
conspicuous place a valid teacher's license at the school;
[
or
]

���� i.���� Fail to accurately and
truthfully record attendance by registered students
; or

����
j.���� Teach a course in a
service not within the scope of practice of the professional license held by
the teacher
.

(cf: P.L.2018, c.126, s.13)

���� 2.��� (New section)� An
individual licensed by the board in a profession other than cosmetology and
hairstyling shall be permitted to teach, in a licensed private school of
cosmetology and hairstyling, courses in the profession in which the individual
is licensed if the individual:

���� a.���� meets the requirements,
other than holding a license in cosmetology and hairstyling, established
pursuant to section 23 of P.L.1984, c.205 (C.45:5B-23); and

���� b.��� provides evidence to the
board showing that the training required to obtain the professional license
held by the individual is equal to or greater than the training required for
the service under the cosmetologist-hairstylist license.

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect on the 90th day next following the date of enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill allows certain
licensees of the New Jersey State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling to teach
in a private school of cosmetology and hairstyling.� Current law limits a
license to teach cosmetology and hairstyling to individuals who hold a cosmetologist-hairstylist
license.� This bill expands that law to allow individuals holding a license to
practice barbering, beauty culture, manicuring or as a hair braiding or skin
care specialist to teach in a private school of cosmetology and hairstyling,
provided the individuals meet certain other requirements.

���� The bill also makes it an
unlawful practice for a teacher to teach a course in a service not within the
scope of practice of the professional license held by the teacher.