LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ESTIMATE

SENATE, No. 2773

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

DATED: JULY 18, 2023

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Synopsis:

Permits cosmetology and hairstyling students with at least 60 hours of course instruction in cosmetology and hairstyling to receive student permit to wash hair.

Type of Impact:

Annual State Revenue and Expenditure Increases.

Agencies Affected:

Department of Law and Public Safety.

 

 

Office of Legislative Services Estimate

Annual Fiscal Impact

 

 

State Cost Increase

Indeterminate

 

State Revenue Increase

Indeterminate

 

 

 

 

·         The Office of Legislative Services (OLS) notes that the bill’s expansion of a student permit to junior students to shampoo and rinse hair will result in annual increases in State revenue collections from permit fees, fines, and penalties by indeterminate amounts. 

·         The OLS has no information on the number of new students that will apply for the permit or the marginal regulatory cost per new permit holder, given that the cost will depend on operating decisions made by the Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling.

 

 

BILL DESCRIPTION

 

      This bill permits a cosmetology and hairstyling student with at least 60 hours of course instruction in cosmetology and hairstyling to receive a student permit to shampoo hair.

      Presently, in order to obtain a student permit to practice cosmetology and hairstyling, beauty culture, barbering, manicuring, or skin care, as appropriate based on the course of instruction in which the student is enrolled, an applicant is required to be a senior student, which requires a student to have completed half of the total hours of instruction in the requisite program.

      Under this bill, a junior student in a course of instruction in cosmetology and hairstyling would be eligible to obtain a student permit to shampoo and rinse hair if the student submits to the Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling satisfactory evidence that the student has completed at least 60 hours of relevant course instruction and has met other certain health requirements.

 

 

FISCAL ANALYSIS

 

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

 

      None received.

 

OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES

 

      The OLS notes that the bill’s expansion of a student permit to junior students to shampoo and rinse hair will result in annual increases in State revenue collections from permit fees, fines, and penalties by indeterminate amounts.  In the absence of information regarding demand for the expanded student permit, the OLS cannot project the magnitude of the associated annual State revenue gain.  The student permit fee is currently $5 per applicant.

      The OLS anticipates that the expanded student permit would increase the recurring administrative expenditures of the State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling to issue new permits and regulate the new junior students.  The OLS, however, has no information on the number of new applicants that will apply for the expanded student permit or the marginal regulatory cost per new permit holder, given that the cost will depend on operating decisions made by the board. 

 

Section:

Law and Public Safety

Analyst:

Kristin Brunner Santos

Lead Fiscal Analyst

Approved:

Thomas Koenig

Legislative Budget and Finance Officer

 

This legislative fiscal estimate has been produced by the Office of Legislative Services due to the failure of the Executive Branch to respond to our request for a fiscal note.

 

This fiscal estimate has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67 (C.52:13B-6 et seq.).