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Prohibiting community colleges offering a curriculum in barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences if a licensed school of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences operates in the same merged area
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 6, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2025
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If a private barber or cosmetology school is already operating in a certain area, community colleges in that same area cannot offer those same classes. This rule only applies if the private school stays open in that area. Any students already enrolled in a community college program can finish their studies before the program has to stop.1
Read the official explanation
This bill prohibits a community college from offering a curriculum, and the director of the department of education from approving a community college curriculum, in barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences if a postsecondary educational institution licensed by the state to operate as a school of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences is operating in the merged area on the effective date of the bill, so long as the institution continues to operate in the merged area. The bill provides that if a community college would otherwise be required to discontinue a program under the bill, the community college shall continue the program until all students enrolled in the program on or before the effective date of the bill have completed or left the program.
House subcommittee
Named February 6, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.
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