PRINTER'S NO. 70
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.87
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY MARCELL, KAZEEM, KHAN, NEILSON AND KENYATTA,
JANUARY 14, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
JANUARY 14, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242, No.86), entitled "An
act to promote the public health and safety by providing for
examination, licensing and granting of permits for those who
desire to engage in the profession of cosmetology; defining
cosmetology, and regulating cosmetology salons, schools,
students, apprentices, teachers, managers, manicurists and
cosmetologists; conferring powers and duties upon the
Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs of the
Department of State; providing for appeals to certain courts
by applicants and licensees; and providing penalties,"
further providing for apprentices in cosmetology salons.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 10 of the act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242,
No.86), referred to as the Cosmetology Law, is amended to read:
Section 10. Apprentices in Cosmetology Salons.--Any
cosmetologist who is a cosmetology salon owner, at least twenty-
three years of age, who is a high school graduate or the
equivalent thereof[,] and who has had at least [ five] ten years
experience as a licensed cosmetologist in Pennsylvania[ , and] or
who is a holder of a teacher's license, may instruct apprentices
in a duly licensed cosmetology salon, provided that there shall
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22 be no less than two licensed cosmetologists in addition to the
teacher for each apprentice in any salon and there shall be no
more than two apprentices in any salon, and provided such salon
is not held out as a school of cosmetology and provided each
teacher instructing an apprentice shall report quarterly hours
to the board on a form provided by the board. Such apprentices
may apply for examination at the end of their apprenticeship at
the next regular examination held by the board, and, if
successful therein, shall be licensed as cosmetologists.
Registered apprentices upon completion of their required term of
apprenticeship, may apply for, and receive from the department,
a temporary permit to practice in the field of cosmetology until
the next regular examination. Nothing in this act shall prohibit
an owner from hiring a cosmetology teacher to instruct
apprentices.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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