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HB341
KHPDX55-1
By Representative DuBose
RFD: Boards, Agencies and Commissions
First Read: 25-Feb-25
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First Read: 25-Feb-25
SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, the Alabama Board of
Cosmetology and Barbering is responsible for licensing
and regulating cosmetology, barbering, and other
related occupations and services.
This bill would exempt any individual who only
provides makeup application services from licensing or
regulation by the board.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and
Barbering; to amend Section 34-7B-13, Code of Alabama 1975, to
exempt individuals who only provide makeup application
services from licensing or regulation by the board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 34-7B-13, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"ยง34-7B-13
This chapter does not apply to any of the following
persons, activities, or services:
(1) Service in the case of emergency or domestic
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(1) Service in the case of emergency or domestic
upheaval, without compensation.
(2) Licensed medical professionals operating within the
scope of their normal practice.
(3) Personnel of the United States armed services
performing their ordinary duties.
(4) Any public trade school or other public school or
school program under the purview of the State Board of
Education or a local board of education.
(5) Any person individual who only occasionally dresses
hair and receives no compensation therefor, or does any other
act or thing mentioned in this chapter, without holding
himself or herself out to the public as a provider of any
practices defined in this chapter for compensation.
(6) Departments in retail establishments where
cosmetics are demonstrated and offered for sale but where no
other acts of cosmetology or barbering are performed.
(7) Any individual whose occupation or practice is
confined solely to makeup application, and who performs makeup
application on the general public for compensation in any
venue, including, but not limited to, an event venue, shop,
spa, or home. Makeup application includes, but is not limited
to, application of makeup primer, face paint, lipstick,
eyeliner, eye shadow, foundation, rouge or cheek color,
mascara, strip lashes, face powder, corrective stick, and
makeup remover, but does not include manual or chemical
exfoliation, semipermanent lash application, lash or brow
tinting, permanent makeup application, microblading, or hair
removal.
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removal.
(7)(8) The licensees of any county or municipal barber
board or commission in existence on August 1, 2013, unless
such board or commission elects, by resolution adopted by the
governing body of the county or municipality, to come under
the provisions of this chapter.
(8)(9) Any person individual who practices as a Class 1
barber."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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