Under existing law, the Alabama Board of Cosmetology is responsible for regulating the practice of cosmetology in the state.
This bill would create the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
This bill would provide for the regulation of cosmetologists, barbers, estheticians, manicurists, and natural hairstylists and their shops and schools under a new registration board, known as the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, and a new Chapter 7B, Title 34 of the Code of Alabama 1975, repealing entirely Chapter 7A, Title 34, commencing with Section 34-7A-1, Code of Alabama 1975, which relates to the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and the regulation of cosmetologists, estheticians, and manicurists.
This bill would provide for the transition of membership on the Alabama Board of Cosmetology to the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering and would provide for the process of electing new members to the board.
This bill would provide for the powers and duties of the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, would provide for the hiring of an executive director, and would provide for the administration of the board by revising the powers of the board pertaining to licensees, shops, schools of barbering, and schools of cosmetology.
This bill would provide for the promulgation of rules and the review of board rulings pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Boards, Agencies and Commissions first Amendment Offered
Pending third reading on day 23 Favorable from Boards, Agencies and Commissions with 1 amendment
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 292
Holley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 291
Holley Amendment Offered
Rules Committee Petition to Cease Debate adopted Roll Call 290
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
Source: Alabama Legislature