SB 689, as introduced, Price. Barbering and cosmetology.
Existing law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of barbering and cosmetology, including the practice of skin care by licensed estheticians, and exempts specified persons from those requirements.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 7319 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
The following persons are exempt from this chapter:
4(a) All persons authorized by the laws of this state to practice
5medicine, surgery, dentistry, pharmacy, osteopathic medicine,
6chiropractic, naturopathy, podiatry, or nursing and acting within
7the scope of practice for which they are licensed.
8(b) Commissioned officers of the United States Army, Navy,
9Air Force, Marine Corps, members of the United States Public
10Health Service, and attendants attached to those services when
11engaged in the actual performance of their official duties.
P2 1(c) Persons employed to render barbering, cosmetology, or
2electrolysis services in the
course of and incidental to the business
3of employers engaged in the theatrical, radio, television or motion
4picture production industry.
5(d) Persons engaged in any practice within its scope when done
6outside of a licensed establishment, without compensation.
7(e) Persons engaged in the administration of hair, skin, or nail
8products for the exclusive purpose of recommending,
9demonstrating, or selling those products.
10(f) Persons who render barbering or cosmetology services in an
11institutional program during the course of and incidental to the
12incarceration or confinement of inmates, prisoners, or persons
13charged with a crime. However, all of the following conditions
14shall apply:
15(1) Those persons shall complete a barbering training course,
16developed by
the Department of Correctionsbegin insert and Rehabilitationend insert
17 and approved by the Department of Consumer Affairs, in the proper
18care of instruments and the prevention of infectious diseases.
19(2) Those persons shall successfully pass an examination,
20developed and administered by the Department of Correctionsbegin insert and
21Rehabilitationend insert, on the proper care of instruments and the prevention
22of infectious diseases.
23(3) All barbering facilities located in correctional institutions
24shall be subject to all appropriate health and safety sanitation
25standards, as determined by the Department of Correctionsbegin insert and
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Rehabilitationend insert.
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