Bill Text: TX HB578 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from the cosmetologist licensing law for persons who provide certain services at a special event.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-04 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB578 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB578-Introduced.html
  84R3411 TSR-D
 
  By: White of Tyler H.B. No. 578
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to an exemption from the cosmetologist licensing law for
  persons who provide certain services at a special event.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1602.003(b), Occupations Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  This chapter does not apply to a person who:
               (1)  provides a service in an emergency;
               (2)  is licensed in this state to practice medicine,
  dentistry, podiatry, chiropractic, or nursing and is operating
  within the scope of the person's license;
               (3)  is in the business of or receives compensation for
  makeup applications only;
               (4)  acts as a barber under Chapter 1601, if the person
  does not hold the person out as a cosmetologist;
               (5)  provides a cosmetic service as a volunteer or an
  employee performing regular duties at a licensed nursing or
  convalescent custodial or personal care home to a patient residing
  in the home;
               (6)  owns, operates, or manages a licensed nursing or
  convalescent custodial or personal care home that allows a person
  with an operator license to perform cosmetic services for patients
  residing in the home on an occasional but not daily basis; [or]
               (7)  provides an incidental cosmetic service, or owns,
  operates, or manages the location where that service is provided,
  if the primary purpose of the service is to enable or assist the
  recipient of the service to participate as the subject of:
                     (A)  a photographic sitting at a fashion
  photography studio;
                     (B)  a television appearance; or
                     (C)  the filming of a motion picture; or
               (8)  provides an incidental cosmetic service,
  including combing, curling, or pinning a person's hair, but not
  including cutting, coloring, dyeing, or processing a person's hair,
  at the location of a special event, including a wedding, if the
  person does not represent that the person is a cosmetologist.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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