SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 2245

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  JUNE 10, 2024

      The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 2245.

      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.  To qualify as a senior student, an individual is 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 does not have a communicable, contagious, or infectious disease that could reasonably be expected to be transmitted during the course of rendering shampoo and hair rinsing services.

      This bill was prefiled for introduction in the 2024-2025 session pending technical review.  As reported, the bill includes the changes required by technical review, which has been performed.