Happy New Year! While full State Relations Updates will resume next week, we wanted to share the following information from Ohio as their lame duck 2018 legislative session ended December 31st.
On Monday, Ohio’s legislature concluded their 2018 legislative session without passing a bill to reduce the course of instruction for cosmetology from 1,500 to 1,000 hours. Sub. HB 189 also contained provisions that would: have established cosmetology, hairstyling, esthetics and manicuring apprenticeship programs; authorize the State Board to establish the requirements for instructor licensure, and; revise the school surrey bond requirement from the current $10,000 bond to a sliding scale equal to ten percent of the school’s gross income from tuition, fees, and other required institutional charges during the preceding calendar year, provided that the required amount of the bond is no less than $10,000 and not more than $250,000 dollars…
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