Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1930 — State of Washington, 67th Legislature, 2022 Regular Session

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Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1930, State of Washington, 67th Legislature, 2022 Regular Session, is by House Consumer Protection & Business and was read first time 01/31/22. The act relates to license renewals for cosmetologists, hair designers, barbers, manicurists, and estheticians and amends RCW 18.16.110. Section 1 states legislative intent, noting that the COVID-19 pandemic may have kept people from renewing within the one year expiration window, and that licenses canceled for failure to renew should get a chance to be renewed. Section 2 provides that a person whose license expired on or after March 1, 2020, may renew it, including if it was canceled, until June 30, 2023. The legislature also intends to study barriers to maintaining a cosmetologist license for the 2023 session.

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                      ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1930


     State of Washington         67th Legislature      2022 Regular Session

     By House Consumer Protection & Business (originally sponsored by
     Representatives Jacobsen, Sutherland, Dolan, Dent, Griffey, Chase,
     Riccelli, Chambers, Ryu, and Graham)

     READ FIRST TIME 01/31/22.




 1       AN ACT Relating to license renewals for cosmetologists, hair
 2   designers, barbers, manicurists, and estheticians; amending RCW
 3   18.16.110; and creating a new section.


 4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:


 5        NEW SECTION.    Sec. 1.   It is the intent of the legislature to
 6   help    resolve   issues   relating  to  professional  licensing  for
 7   cosmetologists, hair designers, barbers, manicurists, estheticians,
 8   master estheticians, and instructors. The COVID-19 pandemic has
 9   affected all Washingtonians in different ways, and many people
10   licensed to instruct or practice cosmetology, hair design, barbering,
11   manicuring, and esthetics may not have renewed their license within
12   the one year expiration window and, as a result, had their license
13   canceled. The legislature intends to allow individuals whose licenses
14   were canceled for failure to renew within the expiration period
15   during the pandemic an opportunity to renew their license. Moving
16   forward, the legislature intends to study barriers to maintaining a
17   professional cosmetologist license in order to address this issue in
18   a comprehensive way in the 2023 legislative session.


19       Sec. 2.   RCW 18.16.110 and 2004 c 51 s 3 are each amended to read
20   as follows:
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 1       (1) The director shall issue the appropriate license to any
 2   applicant who meets the requirements as outlined in this chapter.
 3       (2) Except as provided in RCW 18.16.260:
 4       (a) Failure to renew a license by its expiration date subjects
 5   the holder to a penalty fee and payment of each year's renewal fee,
 6   at the current rate; and
 7       (b) A person whose license has not been renewed within one year
 8   after its expiration date shall have the license canceled and shall
 9   be required to submit an application, pay the license fee, meet
10   current licensing requirements, and pass any applicable examination
11   or examinations, in addition to the other requirements of this
12   chapter, before the license may be reinstated, provided that a person
13   whose license expired on or after March 1, 2020, may renew the
14   license, including if the license was canceled, until June 30, 2023.
15       (3) In lieu of the requirements of subsection (2)(a) of this
16   section, a license placed on inactive status under RCW 18.16.290 may
17   be reinstated to good standing upon receipt by the department of: (a)
18   Payment of a renewal fee, without penalty, for a two-year license
19   commencing on the date the license is reinstated; and (b) if the
20   license was on inactive status during any time that the board finds
21   that a health or other requirement applicable to the license has
22   changed, evidence showing that the holder of the license has
23   successfully completed, from a school licensed under RCW 18.16.140,
24   at least the number of curriculum clock hours of instruction that the
25   board deems necessary for a licensee to be brought current with
26   respect to such changes, but in no case may the number of hours
27   required under this subsection exceed four hours per year that the
28   license was on inactive status.
29       (4) Nothing in this section authorizes a person whose license has
30   expired or is on inactive status to engage in a practice prohibited
31   under RCW 18.16.060 until the license is renewed or reinstated.
32       (5) Upon request and payment of an additional fee to be
33   established by rule by the director, the director shall issue a
34   duplicate license to an applicant.

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