Bill Text: TX HB2738 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the hours of instruction provided in barbering and cosmetology schools.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2738-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2738 |
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relating to the hours of instruction provided in barbering and | ||
cosmetology schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1603.351, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission may | ||
adopt rules to: | ||
(1) authorize a school licensed under this chapter, | ||
Chapter 1601, or Chapter 1602 to account for any hours of | ||
instruction completed under those chapters on the basis of clock | ||
hours or credit hours; and | ||
(2) establish standards for determining the | ||
equivalency and conversion of clock hours to credit hours and | ||
credit hours to clock hours. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2738 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2738 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |