Chapter 0012 - 531R - S Ver of SB1130

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 32-322, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-322. Barber license; application; qualifications; reciprocity

A. An applicant for a barber license shall file the following with the board:

1. A written application on a form prescribed by the board.

2. Evidence satisfactory to the board that the applicant possesses the necessary qualifications.

3. One signed photograph.

B. Each applicant shall:

1. Be at least sixteen years of age.

2. Complete and receive appropriate credits for at least two years of high school education or its equivalent as prescribed by the board in its rules and submit satisfactory evidence that the person is at least sixteen years of age.

3. Pass an examination given under the direction of the board.

4. Pay the prescribed fees.

5. Be a graduate of a school that is licensed pursuant to this chapter or a graduate of a school or program in another state that at the time of the applicant's graduation met the barber licensing requirements of that state.

C. An applicant who holds a valid license to practice barbering issued by another state that has, in the opinion of the board, licensure requirements that are substantially equivalent to the requirements of this state and that grants similar reciprocal privileges to barbers licensed by this state and who has at least one year's experience as a licensed barber is exempt from subsection B, paragraph 3 of this section.

D. Notwithstanding subsection B, paragraph 5 of this section, an applicant for a barber license who holds a cosmetologist license or a hairstylist license issued pursuant to chapter 5 of this title shall complete a seven hundred fifty-hour course of study consisting of barbering techniques in a barbering school licensed pursuant to this chapter. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 32-501, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-501. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Aesthetician" means a person who is licensed to practice skin care pursuant to this chapter.

2. "Aesthetics" means any one or a combination of the following practices if they are performed for cosmetic purposes:

(a) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or applying oils, creams, antiseptics, clays, lotions or other preparations, either by hand or by mechanical or electrical appliances.

(b) Arching eyebrows or tinting eyebrows and eyelashes.

3. "Board" means the board of cosmetology.

4. "Cosmetic purposes" means for the purpose of beautifying, preserving or conferring comeliness, excluding therapeutic massage and manipulations.

5. "Cosmetologist" means a person who is licensed to practice cosmetology pursuant to this chapter.

6. "Cosmetology" means any one or a combination of the following practices if they are performed for cosmetic purposes:

(a) Cutting, clipping or trimming hair.

(b) (a) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or applying oils, creams, antiseptics, clays, lotions or other preparations, either by hand or by mechanical or electrical appliances.

(c) Styling, arranging, dressing, curling, waving, permanent waving, straightening, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, dyeing, tinting, coloring or similarly treating hair.

(d) (b) Arching eyebrows or tinting eyebrows and eyelashes.

(e) (c) Removing superfluous hair by means other than electrolysis or threading.

(f) (d) Nail technology.

(e) Hairstyling.

7. "Electrical appliances" means devices that use electrical current and includes lasers and IPL devices as defined in section 32‑516.

8. "Hairstyling" means either of the following:

(a) Cutting, clipping or trimming hair.

(b) Styling, arranging, dressing, curling, waving, permanent waving, straightening, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, dyeing, tinting, coloring or similarly treating hair.

9. "Hairstylist" means a person who is licensed to practice hairstyling pursuant to this chapter.

8. 10. "Instructor" means a person who is licensed to teach cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling, or any combination thereof, pursuant to this chapter.

9. 11. "Nail technician" means a person who is licensed to practice nail technology pursuant to this chapter.

10. 12. "Nail technology" means any of the following:

(a) Cutting, trimming, polishing, coloring, tinting, cleansing or otherwise treating a person's nails.

(b) Applying artificial nails.

11. 13. "Salon" means any of the following:

(a) An establishment that is operated for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling, or any combination of the listed practices.

(b) An establishment together with a retrofitted motor vehicle for exclusive use as a mobile facility for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling, or any combination of the listed practices, that is operated and dispatched through the establishment.

(c) A retrofitted motor vehicle exclusively used as a mobile facility for the purpose of engaging in the practice of cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling, or any combination of the listed practices, that is operated and dispatched from a business that has a physical street address that is on file with the board.

12. 14. "School" means an establishment that is operated for the purpose of teaching cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling, or any combination of the listed practices.

13. 15. "Threading" means a service that results in the removal of hair from its follicle from around the eyebrows and from other parts of the face with the use of a single strand of cotton thread and an over‑the‑counter astringent, if the service does not use chemicals of any kind, wax or any implements, instruments or tools to remove hair. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Section 32-504, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-504. Powers and duties

A. The board shall:

1. Adopt rules that are necessary and proper for the administration of this chapter, including sanitary and safety requirements for salons and schools and sanitary and safety standards for the practice of cosmetology, aesthetics, and nail technology and hairstyling.

2. Administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.

3. Either prepare, administer and grade practical and written examinations or contract with a national professional organization for cosmetology selected by the board to prepare, administer and grade practical and written examinations.

4. Make and maintain a record of its acts and proceedings, including the issuance, denial, renewal, suspension or revocation of licenses and public reproofs of licensees.

5. Evidence its official acts by the signature of the chairman or vice‑chairman of the board or a representative designated by the board.

6. Keep records of the board open to public inspection at all reasonable times.

7. Make an annual report to the governor on or before October 1 of each year covering its official acts and financial transactions during the preceding fiscal year and making recommendations it deems necessary.

8. Prescribe minimum school curriculum requirements for cosmetologists, aestheticians, nail technicians, hairstylists and instructors.

9. Prescribe standards and requirements for the provision of salon services through mobile units and in customer locations.

B. The board may:

1. Inspect the premises of any salon or school during business hours.

2. Delegate authority to its executive director to issue licenses to applicants who meet the requirements of this chapter. END_STATUTE

Sec. 4. Section 32-506, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-506. Nonapplicability of chapter

This chapter does not apply to the following persons while in the proper discharge of their professional duties:

1. Practices for the treatment of physical or mental ailments or disease by medical practitioners licensed pursuant to this title.

2. Commissioned physicians and surgeons who are serving in the armed forces of the United States or other federal agencies.

3. Persons who are licensed pursuant to chapter 3 or 12 of this title.

4. Students who are attending schools licensed pursuant to this chapter while they are on school premises during school hours.

5. Persons employed by theatrical groups who apply makeup, oils and cosmetics.

6. Persons who sell makeup, oils and cosmetics and who apply such products during the process of selling such products.

7. Shampoo assistants who shampoo hair under the direction of a cosmetologist or hairstylist licensed pursuant to this chapter.

8. Services performed by and for persons in the custody of the state department of corrections.

9. Persons who apply makeup, oils and cosmetics to patients in a hospital, nursing home or residential care institution with the consent of the patient and the hospital, nursing home or residential care institution.

10. Persons who provide a service that results in tension on hair strands or roots by twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking or braiding, if the service does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals or other preparations to alter the color of the hair or to straighten, curl or alter the structure of the hair.

11. Persons who provide threading.

12. Persons who provide tanning services by means of airbrushing, tanning beds or spray tanning.

13. Persons who apply makeup, including eyelash enhancements. This paragraph does not apply if a person is engaging in the practice of aesthetics or cosmetology. A person who is exempt pursuant to this paragraph shall conspicuously post a sign in a conspicuous location in the person's place of business notifying the public that the person's services are not regulated by the board. END_STATUTE

Sec. 5. Heading change

The article heading of title 32, chapter 5, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is changed from "COSMETOLOGISTS, AESTHETICIANS AND NAIL TECHNICIANS" to "COSMETOLOGISTS, AESTHETICIANS, NAIL TECHNICIANS AND HAIRSTYLISTS".

Sec. 6. Title 32, chapter 5, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 32-512.01, to read:

START_STATUTE32-512.01. Hairstylists; applications; qualifications

A person is entitled to receive a license to practice hairstyling if the person does all of the following:

1. Submits to the board an application for a hairstylist license on a form supplied by the board.

2. Either:

(a) Completes and receives appropriate credits for at least two years of high school education or its equivalent as prescribed by the board in its rules and submits satisfactory evidence that the person is at least sixteen years of age.

(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 either:

(a) Graduated from a hairstyling school in another state or country that had at the time of the person's graduation substantially the same requirements as this state for schools licensed pursuant to this chapter.

(b) Completed a hairstylist course consisting of at least one thousand hours of training in a school licensed pursuant to this chapter.

4. Pays the prescribed fees for a hairstylist license.

5. Passes the examination for a hairstylist license. END_STATUTE

Sec. 7. Section 32-513, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-513. Reciprocity

Notwithstanding sections 32‑510, 32‑511, and 32‑512 and 32-512.01, a person is entitled to receive a cosmetologist, aesthetician, or nail technician or hairstylist license if the person does all of the following:

1. Submits to the board an application for a cosmetologist, aesthetician, or nail technician or hairstylist license on a form supplied by the board.

2. Submits to the board satisfactory evidence that the person is licensed in another state or country.

3. Takes and completes a class relating to infection protection and law review that is provided by the board or its designee. The board shall determine the amount of the fees for the class. The applicant shall pay the fees directly to the board or its designee.

4. Pays the prescribed reciprocity license fees. END_STATUTE

Sec. 8. Section 32-514, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-514. Examinations

A. The board or a national professional organization for cosmetology selected by the board shall administer written and practical examinations for a cosmetologist, aesthetician, nail technician, hairstylist or instructor license. The examinations shall test for requisite knowledge and skills in the technical application of cosmetology services.

B. The board or a national professional organization for cosmetology selected by the board shall inform each applicant of the examination results.

C. The board shall make an accurate record of each examination. END_STATUTE

Sec. 9. Section 32-517, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-517. License renewal

A. Except as provided in section 32-4301, a cosmetologist, an aesthetician, or a nail technician or a hairstylist shall renew the person's license on or before the person's birth date birthday once every two years.

B. A cosmetologist, an aesthetician, or a nail technician or a hairstylist shall submit an application for renewal accompanied by the prescribed renewal fee in order to renew the person's license.

C. A cosmetologist, an aesthetician, or a nail technician or a hairstylist who fails to renew the person's license on or before the person's birth date birthday shall also pay the prescribed delinquent renewal penalty in order to renew the license. END_STATUTE

Sec. 10. Section 32-531, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-531. Instructors; applications; qualifications

A person is entitled to receive a license to teach cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling in a school if the person does all of the following:

1. Submits to the board an application for an instructor license on a form prescribed by the board.

2. Either:

(a) Holds a diploma from a high school or its equivalent as prescribed by the board in its rules and submits to the board satisfactory evidence that the person is at least sixteen years of age.

(b) Submits to the board satisfactory evidence that the person is at least eighteen years of age.

3. Is a licensed cosmetologist, aesthetician, or nail technician or hairstylist, is applying for an instructor license to teach a subject in which the person is licensed and complies with either of the following:

(a) has practiced for at least one year, has passed the school examination in the profession for which the person is applying for an instructor license and has received the following hours of instructor training:

(i) (a) For a cosmetologist instructor, six three hundred fifty hours.

(ii) (b) For an aesthetics instructor, five three hundred fifty hours.

(iii) (c) For a nail technician instructor, three hundred fifty hours.

(d) For a hairstylist instructor, three hundred fifty hours.

(b) Has five years of licensed industry experience within the ten years preceding the application and meets requirements as prescribed by the board in its rules.

4. Passes the examination for an instructor license.

5. Pays the prescribed fees. END_STATUTE

Sec. 11. Section 32-532, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-532. Instructor reciprocity

Notwithstanding section 32‑531, a person is entitled to receive a license to teach cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling in a school if the person submits to the board an application for an instructor license on a form prescribed by the board, pays the prescribed fees and complies with one of the following:

1. Is a current licensed cosmetologist, aesthetician, or nail technician or hairstylist instructor in another state or country.

2. Does all of the following:

(a) Either:

(i) Submits to the board satisfactory evidence that the person is at least eighteen years of age.

(ii) Holds a diploma from a high school or its equivalent as prescribed by the board in its rules and submits to the board satisfactory evidence that the person is at least sixteen years of age.

(b) Is a licensed cosmetologist, aesthetician, or nail technician or hairstylist in another state or country.

(c) Completes instructor training in another state or country that has instructor education requirements that are at least substantially equivalent to those of this state.

(d) Passes the examination for an instructor license.

(e) Has five years of licensed industry experience within the ten years preceding application.

(f) Meets requirements as prescribed by the board in its rules. END_STATUTE

Sec. 12. Section 32-542, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-542. Salon inspections

A. The board shall inspect all proposed salons to determine if all of the requirements are met. The board may issue a license to a salon pending inspection of the salon as it deems appropriate.

B. The board shall inspect salons on a regular basis as it deems necessary. END_STATUTE

Sec. 13. Section 32-543, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-543. Required display

Salons shall display the following in a conspicuous location which that is readily observable by any patron:

1. The current salon license.

2. The current licenses for cosmetologists, aestheticians, or nail technicians or hairstylists practicing in the salon.

3. The latest inspection sheet. END_STATUTE

Sec. 14. Section 32-551, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-551. School licenses; applications; requirements

A. A person is entitled to a license to operate a school if:

1. He The person pays the prescribed fee.

2. He The person furnishes a surety bond in the amount of ten thousand dollars approved by the board and executed by a corporate bonding company authorized to do business in this state. The bond shall be for the benefit of and subject to the claims of the state for failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter and any student who fails to receive the full course of instruction required under this chapter.

3. He The person submits to the board under oath an application for a school license on a form supplied by the board and other documentation required by the board in its rules.

4. The proposed school passes an inspection by the board before it opens.

B. An incomplete application shall be returned to an applicant within thirty days after the board receives it with the causes for the return. END_STATUTE

Sec. 15. Section 32-557, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-557. Services for the public; restrictions

A. Students may render services to the public only under the direct supervision of an instructor.

B. The following notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place within the school in letters large enough to be read across the length of the room, "school of cosmetology ‑ work done exclusively by students."

C. A student in a school shall not receive a salary or commission from the school for any cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling services while he is enrolled in the school as a student.

D. A school shall post a price list for services rendered to the public which that is large enough to be easily read from a distance of ten feet. END_STATUTE

Sec. 16. Section 32-572, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-572. Grounds for disciplinary action or refusal to issue or renew license; definition

A. The board may take disciplinary action or refuse to issue or renew a license for any of the following causes:

1. Continued performance of cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling services by a person knowingly having an infectious or communicable disease.

2. Conviction of a crime.

3. Commission of an act involving dishonesty, fraud or deceit with the intent to substantially benefit oneself or another or substantially injure another.

4. Malpractice or incompetency.

5. Knowingly advertising by means of false, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent statements through communication media.

6. Violating any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter.

7. Making oral or written false statements to the board.

8. Repeated failure to correct infractions of safety and sanitary requirements prescribed by the board in its rules.

9. Failing to comply with an order of the board.

B. A conviction of a crime or act shall not be a cause of refusal to issue or renew a license unless the crime or act is substantially related to the qualifications, functions or duties of the license for which application is made.

C. The expiration, cancellation, suspension or revocation of a license or a licensee's voluntary surrender of a license does not deprive the board of jurisdiction to do any of the following:

1. Proceed with an investigation of a licensee.

2. Proceed with an action or disciplinary proceeding against a licensee.

3. Suspend or revoke a license.

4. Deny the renewal or right of renewal of a license.

D. For the purposes of this section, "conviction" means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of no contest. END_STATUTE

Sec. 17. Section 32-574, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-574. Unlawful acts; violation; classification

A. A person shall not:

1. Perform or attempt to perform cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling without a license in that category issued pursuant to this chapter, or practice in a category in which the person does not hold a license.

2. Display a sign or in any way advertise or hold oneself out as a cosmetologist, aesthetician, or nail technician or hairstylist or as being engaged in the practice or business of cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling without being licensed pursuant to this chapter.

3. Knowingly make a false statement on an application for a license pursuant to this chapter.

4. Permit an employee or another person under the person's supervision or control to perform cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling without a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

5. Practice or attempt to practice cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling in any place other than in a salon licensed pursuant to this chapter unless the person is requested by a customer to go to a place other than a salon licensed pursuant to this chapter and is sent to the customer from the salon, except that a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter may practice, without the salon's request, cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling in a health care facility, hospital, residential care institution, nursing home or residence of a person requiring home care because of an illness, infirmity or disability.

6. Obtain or attempt to obtain a license by the use of money other than the prescribed fees or any other thing of value or by fraudulent misrepresentation.

7. Provide any service to a person having a visible disease, pediculosis or open sores suggesting a communicable disease until the person furnishes a statement signed by a physician who is licensed pursuant to chapter 13 or 17 of this title stating that the disease or condition is not in an infectious, contagious or communicable stage.

8. Operate a salon or school without being licensed pursuant to this chapter.

9. Violate any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter.

10. Ignore or fail to comply with a board subpoena.

11. Use the title of "aesthetician", "cosmetologist", or "nail technician" or "hairstylist" or any other title or term likely to be confused with "aesthetician", "cosmetologist", or "nail technician" or "hairstylist" in any advertisement, statement or publication unless that person is licensed pursuant to this chapter.

12. Teach cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling in this state unless the person is licensed as an instructor pursuant to article 3 of this chapter.

B. An instructor shall not render cosmetology, aesthetics, or nail technology or hairstyling services in a school unless the services are directly incidental to the instruction of students.

C. A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE

Sec. 18. Effective date

This act is effective from and after December 31, 2017.