Utah Apprenticeship Bill Favorably Modified by Senate Committee

In Utah, the Senate Business and Labor Committee reported a Committee Substitute last Friday that stripped House adopted language reducing the apprenticeship hours required for licensure as a barber, cosmetologist, esthetician and nail technician to the same level as the course of instruction in a school. As currently drafted, the measure would: retain current apprenticeships hours; allow direct supervision of up to two nail technician apprentices (the other apprenticeship programs listed above would remain one-to-one); and provide for the establishment of hair designer apprenticeships. HB 323 is currently awaiting consideration on the Senate floor.

Ohio’s House Government Accountability and Oversight Committee conducted a fourth hearing last week on HB 189. The focus was a substitute measure drafted by the bill’s sponsors that: “a) permits pre-graduate testing to help increase licensure rates; b) returns manicuring hours from 100 to 200; c) returns esthetics hours from 300 to 600; d) removes the 5-year experience requirement for instructors; e) removes the language increasing the surety bond from $10,000 to $100,000 for schools; and, f) requires salons and schools of cosmetology to work in partnership to establish the apprenticeship program.” The substitute measure still reduces the course of instruction for cosmetology from 1,500 to 1,000 hours.

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