Relating to a barbering and cosmetology establishment training program

Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
Done: House committeeFebruary 26, 2025
Done: Passes the HouseMarch 17, 202567–29
Done: Senate committeeApril 3, 2025
Done: Passes the SenateMay 12, 202530–20
Done: To the GovernorMay 27, 2025
Done: Signed into lawJune 6, 2025

Became HF 711 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 711 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences by certain unlicensed persons. The bill requires the board of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences to create an establishment training program (program). The bill allows an establishment to participate in the program by registering with the board. who regularly provides those services. The bill requires an unlicensed person participating in the program to first receive education regarding barbering and cosmetology laws and rules and sanitation.

Read the full explanation

The owner of an establishment participating in the program is responsible for ensuring the education, training, skills, and competence of persons who provide services in the owner’s establishment. The bill requires an establishment participating in the program to comply with all facility and minimum equipment requirements, safety and infection control provisions, inspection requirements, management requirements, and establishment licensing renewal requirements. The bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing to inspect an establishment participating in the program as often as it deems necessary to ensure compliance with these requirements. The bill also requires an establishment participating in the program to inform a consumer receiving services from an unlicensed person in writing prior to the provision of services. The bill allows a party prevailing in an action based on an injury alleged to have occurred in an establishment participating in the program to recover reasonable attorney’s fees and receive other equitable relief as determined by the court. The bill allows the board to order an establishment to immediately cease participation in the program if it has probable cause to believe that human health is endangered. The bill requires the board to formally investigate an establishment subject to discipline under the bill and allows the board to reinstate or revoke the establishment’s participation in the program, and to suspend, revoke, or reinstate the establishment’s license.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendments H-1325, S-3143, S-3142, H-1046; see Amendments. Full bill text · What changed before it passed

House subcommittee

Named February 11, 2025. On February 24, 2025 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§157.12D

Amends§157.13 §157.2

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Lobbying

6 for · 3 against · 3 undecided · Who →

Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

Tried before

HF 2117Cleared committee90th GA

91st General Assembly

HF 49RenumberedHouse companion SF 41Cleared committeeSenate companion SF 316RenumberedSenate companion HF 711Became lawfrom HF 49 SF 551Didn’t advancefrom SF 316

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

HF 2117 Relating to a barbering and cosmetology establishment training program
90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same title
Cleared committee

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