WEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 2347

By Delegates Howell, Maynard, walters, mcgeehan, C. miller, sypolt, westfall, hamrick, higginbotham, harshbarger and atkinson

[Passed March 11, 2017; in effect ninety days from passage.]

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia,1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-27-15, relating to allowing schools licensed to provide barber, cosmetology and related training to hold theory classes and clinical classes at separate locations; and prohibiting schools licensed to provide barber, cosmetology and related training from being established within the same physical structure as a salon, spa, or similar business.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Code of West Virginia,1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-27-15, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 27. BOARD OF BARBERS AND COSMETOLOGISTS.

§30-27-15. Schools may provide certain classes at different locations.

A licensed school may provide clinical instruction and theory instruction in separate locations.  Any school authorized under this article cannot be established within the same physical structure as a salon, spa or similar business licensed under W. Va. Code § 30-27-17.