BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 2025 (Gonzalez) - Barbering and cosmetology: labor law
education requirements
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|Version: June 9, 2016 |Policy Vote: B., P. & E.D. 8 - |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: August 1, 2016 |Consultant: Brendan McCarthy |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: AB 2025 would require the Board of Barbering and
Cosmetology to ensure that all written materials provided to
licensees are provided in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese, to
collect optional demographic data from license applicants, and
to require a license applicant to acknowledge his or her
responsibilities with regard to state labor laws.
Fiscal
Impact:
No significant costs are anticipated from the requirement to
provide information to licensees in Spanish, and Vietnamese or
to collect applicant demographic data. The Board has already
translated its informational materials into those languages or
is in the process of doing so. Similarly, the Board indicates
that cost to update the BreEze license application system to
collect optional demographic data from applicants can be
accommodated within the existing maintenance budget, given the
delayed implementation date of this requirement of January 1,
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2018.
Additional information technology costs, likely over $150,000
to make changes to the BreEze online application system, to
record a license applicant's acknowledgement of his or her
responsibility to comply with state labor laws (Barbering and
Cosmetology Contingent Fund). This requirement of the bill
would go into effect on January 1, 2017 and could not be
absorbed within the current year maintenance budget.
Background: Under current law, the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology
licenses and regulates the practice of barbering, cosmetology,
and electrolysis. The Board licenses individual practitioners of
those professions as well as establishments in which those
services are provided.
The Board of Barbering and Cosmetology is one of the Department
of Consumer Affairs licensing boards and bureaus that is
currently using the BreEze online application system.
Proposed Law:
AB 2025 would require the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology
to ensure that all written materials provided to licensees are
provided in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese, to collect
optional demographic data from license applicants, and to
require a license applicant to acknowledge his or her
responsibilities with regard to state labor laws.
Specific provisions of the bill would:
Require the Board to make all written materials provided to
licensees and applicants available in English, Spanish, and
Vietnamese;
Beginning on January 1, 2018, require the Board to collect
demographic information from applicants, through optional
questions on the application for licensure;
Require an existing advisory committee to consider issues
relating to state labor laws when advising the Board on health
and safety issues;
Require an applicant for licensure to include a signed
acknowledgement that the applicant understands his or her
rights under basic labor laws;
Require an applicant for licensure as an establishment to
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include a signed acknowledgement that the applicant
understands that establishments are responsible for compliance
with basic labor laws;
Require basic labor laws to be covered in the health and
safety course license applicants are required to take.
Related
Legislation:
AB 2125 (Chiu) would require the Department of Public Health
to develop guidelines for local governments to implement
health nail salon recognition programs. That bill will be
heard in this committee.
AB 2437 (Ting) would require establishments licensed by the
Board of Barbering and Cosmetology to post information on
labor law requirements. That bill will be heard in this
committee.
SB 1125 (Nguyen) would require an applicant for an
establishment license to acknowledge the applicant's
responsibility to comply with labor laws. That bill is pending
in the Assembly.
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