H. B. 2412
(By Delegates Faircloth and Evans)
[Introduced January 20, 2003; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article twenty-seven,
chapter thirty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to establishing
minimum standards for licensure of barbers schooled and
graduated in another state.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article twenty-seven, chapter thirty of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 27. BOARD OF BARBERS AND COSMETOLOGISTS.
§30-27-3. Qualifications of applicants; fees; examinations;
licensure.
An applicant for licensure as a barber, beautician or
manicurist shall present satisfactory evidence that he or she is at
least eighteen years of age, of good moral character and temperate habits, has completed at least the eighth grade of school, or the
equivalent thereof, and has been graduated from a school of
barbering or beauty culture approved by the state board of barbers
and beauticians, or in the case of a manicurist has successfully
completed an approved course in manicuring in such a school, and
shall transmit with his or her application an examination fee of
twenty-five dollars. The examination shall be of such character as
to determine the qualifications and fitness of the applicant to
practice barbering, beauty culture or manicuring as defined by this
article, and shall cover such subjects germane to the inquiry as
the board may deem proper. If an applicant for licensure as a
barber or beautician successfully passes such examination and
presents a certificate of health from a licensed physician and is
otherwise qualified as required by this section, the board shall
license the applicant as a duly qualified barber or beautician.
Any applicant for license as a manicurist may be licensed as a duly
qualified manicurist after he has passed passing the examination.
The board shall charge twenty-five dollars for the issuance of to
issue a license.
The state board of barbers and beauticians shall promulgate
rules and regulations to establish a joint barber-beautician
license.
Any person who meets the requirements of this section as to
age, character and health, who is a graduate of a recognized school of barbering or beauty culture in another state, or has
successfully completed an approved course in manicuring in such a
school, and who holds a current license as a registered barber,
beautician or manicurist in another state, may file with the board
an application for licensure without examination, together with a
fee of fifty dollars. If in the opinion of the board such
applicant has had a prescribed course of instruction in barbering,
beauty culture or manicuring equivalent to that required in this
state at the time such course was completed, or is otherwise
properly qualified, the board may without examination issue to such
applicant a license as a duly qualified barber, beautician or
manicurist: Provided, That no barber otherwise qualified for
licensure shall be denied a license for lack of formal barbering
instruction if that instruction consisted of at least eight hundred
hours of instruction at the barber school from which the applicant
graduated and the applicant has been actively engaged in the trade
of barbering in another state for at least two years.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish minimum
standards for the licensure of barbers who gained their craft in
schooling and training in another state.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.