HB75 Alabama 2018 Session

Existing law does not regulate microblading and eyelash extension facilities.

This bill would provide for the regulation of microblading and eyelash extension facilities.

This bill would allow the State Department of Health to promulgate rules regarding microblading and eyelash extension.

This bill would provide for civil remedies and criminal penalties.

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 16 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.

To regulate microblading and eyelash extension facilities and the practice of microblading and eyelash extension; to allow the State Department of Health to promulgate rules regarding microblading and eyelash extension; to provide for civil remedies and criminal penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.