Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1329
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 25-8.
Synopsis: Beauty preexamination hours. Reduces the number of hours
an applicant for a cosmetology license must have in order to take the
cosmetology licensure examination from 1,500 to 1,000. Reduces the
number of hours an applicant for a beauty culture instructor license
must have in order to take the beauty culture instructor licensure
examination from 1,000 to 500. Reduces the number of hours an
applicant for a barber license must have in order to take the barber
licensure examination from 1,500 to 1,000. Makes corresponding
changes.
Effective: July 1, 2025.
Wesco, Criswell, VanNatter
January 13, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and
Pensions.
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First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1329
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
professions and occupations.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 25-8-4-2, AS AMENDED BY P.L.84-2010,
2 SECTION 38, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 2. (a) If the board determines that:
4 (1) a person possesses a valid license from another jurisdiction to
5 perform acts that require a license under this article; and
6 (2) the jurisdiction issuing the license imposes substantially equal
7 requirements on applicants for the license as are imposed on
8 applicants for an Indiana license;
9 the board may issue a license to perform those acts in Indiana to that
10 person upon payment of the fee required under IC 25-8-13.
11 (b) This subsection applies only to applications for a cosmetologist
12 license under IC 25-8-9. If the jurisdiction issuing the license does not
13 impose substantially equal requirements for education hours as
14 required under subsection (a)(2), the board may approve the
15 combination of education hours plus actual licensed practice in the
16 other jurisdiction when issuing a license to a person from that
17 jurisdiction. One (1) year of licensed practice is equal to one hundred
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1 (100) hours of education to an applicant who has completed a
2 minimum of one thousand (1,000) five hundred (500) hours of
3 education.
4 (c) This subsection applies only to applications for a manicurist
5 license under IC 25-8-11. If the jurisdiction issuing a license does not
6 impose substantially equal requirements for education hours as
7 required under subsection (a)(2), the board may approve the
8 combination of education hours plus actual licensed practice in the
9 other jurisdiction when issuing a license to a person from that
10 jurisdiction, as follows:
11 (1) For an applicant with less than twenty (20) years of actual
12 licensed practice as a manicurist, one (1) year of licensed practice
13 is equal to one hundred (100) hours of education to an applicant
14 who has completed at least three hundred (300) hours of
15 education.
16 (2) For an applicant with twenty (20) or more years of actual
17 licensed practice as a manicurist, one (1) year of licensed practice
18 is equal to one hundred (100) hours of education to an applicant
19 who has completed at least one hundred (100) hours of education.
20 (d) This subsection applies only to applications for an electrologist
21 license under IC 25-8-10. If the jurisdiction issuing a license does not
22 impose substantially equal requirements for education hours as
23 required under subsection (a)(2), the board may approve the
24 combination of education hours plus actual licensed practice in the
25 other jurisdiction when issuing a license to a person from that
26 jurisdiction. One (1) year of licensed practice as an electrologist is
27 equal to one hundred (100) hours of education to an applicant who has
28 completed at least two hundred (200) hours of education.
29 (e) This subsection applies only to applications for an esthetician
30 license under IC 25-8-12.5. If the jurisdiction issuing a license does not
31 impose substantially equal requirements for education hours as
32 required under subsection (a)(2), the board may approve the
33 combination of education hours plus actual licensed practice in the
34 other jurisdiction when issuing a license to a person from that
35 jurisdiction. One (1) year of licensed practice as an esthetician is equal
36 to one hundred (100) hours of education to an applicant who has
37 completed at least four hundred (400) hours of education.
38 (f) This subsection applies only to applications for a beauty culture
39 instructor license under IC 25-8-6. If the jurisdiction issuing a license
40 does not impose substantially equal requirements for education hours
41 as required under subsection (a)(2), the board may approve the
42 combination of education hours plus actual licensed practice in the
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1 other jurisdiction when issuing a license to a person from that
2 jurisdiction. One (1) year of licensed practice as a beauty culture
3 instructor is equal to one hundred (100) hours of education to an
4 applicant who has completed at least seven hundred (700) two
5 hundred fifty (250) hours of education.
6 (g) This subsection applies only to applications for a barber license
7 under IC 25-8-12.1. If the jurisdiction issuing the license does not
8 impose substantially equivalent requirements as required under
9 subsection (a)(2), the board may approve a combination of education
10 hours plus actual licensed practice in the other jurisdiction when
11 issuing a license to a person from that jurisdiction. One (1) year of
12 licensed practice is equal to one hundred (100) hours of education to
13 an applicant who has completed at least one thousand (1,000) five
14 hundred (500) hours of education.
15 SECTION 2. IC 25-8-5-3, AS AMENDED BY P.L.158-2016,
16 SECTION 7, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
17 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 3. (a) The application described in section 2 of
18 this chapter must state that:
19 (1) as a requirement for graduation, the proposed school will
20 require its students to successfully complete the hours of course
21 work required by the student's specific course of study to be
22 eligible to sit for the licensing examination;
23 (2) no more than ten (10) hours of course work may be taken by
24 a student during one (1) day;
25 (3) the course work will instruct the students in all theories and
26 practical application of the students' specific course of study;
27 (4) the school will provide an adequate number of instructors
28 based on the subject matter and manner by which the material is
29 being taught;
30 (5) the school will be operated under the personal supervision of
31 a licensed beauty culture instructor;
32 (6) the proposed school has obtained any building permit,
33 certificate of occupancy, or other planning approval required
34 under IC 22-15-3 and IC 36-7-4 to operate the school;
35 (7) the school, if located in the same building as a residence, will:
36 (A) be separated from the residence by a substantial floor to
37 ceiling partition; and
38 (B) have a separate entry;
39 (8) as a requirement for graduation, the proposed school must
40 administer and require the student to pass:
41 (A) a final practical demonstration examination of the acts
42 permitted by the license; and
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1 (B) the written examination required under IC 25-8-4-7(b);
2 and
3 (9) the applicant has paid the fee set forth in IC 25-8-13-3.
4 (b) The hours of course work required under subsection (a)(1) for
5 a student to sit for a licensing examination must be at least one
6 thousand five hundred (1,500) (1,000) hours if the student's course of
7 study leads to the student sitting for either the cosmetology or barber
8 licensing examination.
9 SECTION 3. IC 25-8-6-3, AS AMENDED BY P.L.170-2013,
10 SECTION 41, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
11 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 3. (a) The application described in section 2 of
12 this chapter must state that the applicant:
13 (1) is at least eighteen (18) years of age;
14 (2) has graduated from high school or received the equivalent of
15 a high school education;
16 (3) holds a cosmetologist, an electrologist, a manicurist, a barber,
17 or an esthetician license issued under this article;
18 (4) has completed the education and experience requirements
19 subject to the rules adopted by the board, except as provided in
20 subsection (b);
21 (5) has not committed an act for which the applicant could be
22 disciplined under IC 25-8-14;
23 (6) has received a satisfactory grade (as described in IC 25-8-4-9)
24 on an examination for instructor license applicants prescribed by
25 the board; and
26 (7) has paid the fee set forth in IC 25-8-13-4 for the issuance of a
27 license under this chapter.
28 (b) An applicant under this section is not required to complete
29 more than five hundred (500) hours of education.
30 SECTION 4. IC 25-8-6-4, AS AMENDED BY P.L.170-2013,
31 SECTION 42, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
32 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 4. If a person does not receive a satisfactory grade
33 on the examination described in section 3(6) section 3(a)(6) of this
34 chapter, that person may repeat the examination without completing
35 any additional study in instructing.
36 SECTION 5. IC 25-8-12.1-3, AS AMENDED BY P.L.170-2013,
37 SECTION 71, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
38 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 3. The application described in section 2 of this
39 chapter must state that the applicant:
40 (1) is either:
41 (A) at least eighteen (18) years of age; or
42 (B) at least seventeen (17) years of age and is a graduate of an
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1 accredited high school;
2 (2) has graduated with not less than one thousand five hundred
3 (1,500) (1,000) hours of training in a barber program in a beauty
4 culture school;
5 (3) has received a satisfactory grade of at least seventy-five
6 percent (75%) on an examination for barber license applicants
7 prescribed by the board;
8 (4) has not committed an act that could subject the applicant to
9 discipline under IC 25-1-11; and
10 (5) has paid the fee set forth in IC 25-8-13 for the issuance of a
11 license under this chapter.
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