84R4678 TSR-D
By: Schaefer H.B. No. 847
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility for a manicurist license or a barber
technician/manicurist specialty license.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 1601.257(b) and (c), Occupations Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(b) An applicant for a manicurist license must:
(1) be at least 17 years of age;
(2) have completed the seventh grade or the equivalent
of the seventh grade;
(3) have completed a commission-approved training
program consisting of 100 [600] hours of instruction in manicuring;
and
(4) submit the required fee with the application.
(c) The department shall issue a manicurist license to an
applicant who:
(1) possesses the qualifications described by
Subsection (b);
(2) passes a practical [the appropriate] examination;
(3) pays the required license fee; and
(4) has not committed an act that is a ground for
denial of a license.
SECTION 2. Section 1601.262(c), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) An applicant who qualifies under Subsection (b)(3)(B)
must:
(1) be at least 17 years of age and have completed the
seventh grade or its equivalent; and
(2) have completed:
(A) 400 [900] hours of instruction in a barber
technician/manicurist curriculum in a commission-approved training
program, with 100 hours of instruction dedicated to manicuring; or
(B) 100 [600] hours of instruction in a manicure
curriculum and 300 hours of instruction in a barber technician
curriculum in a commission-approved training program.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections
1601.257 and 1601.262, Occupations Code, apply only to an
application for a manicurist license or barber
technician/manicurist specialty license submitted on or after the
effective date of this Act. An application for a manicurist license
or barber technician/manicurist specialty license submitted before
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
the date the application was submitted, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.