Public Act 93-0253
HB0468 Enrolled LRB093 04022 AMC 04061 b
AN ACT concerning professional regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, and Nail
Technology Act of 1985 is amended by changing Sections 3-2
and 4-2 as follows:
(225 ILCS 410/3-2) (from Ch. 111, par. 1703-2)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2006)
Sec. 3-2. Licensure; qualifications.
(1) A person is qualified to receive a license as a
cosmetologist who has filed an application on forms provided
by the Department, pays the required fees, and:
a. Is at least l6 years of age; and
b. Has graduated from an eighth grade elementary
school, or its equivalent; and
c. Has graduated from a school of cosmetology
approved by the Department, having completed a program
total of l500 hours in the study of cosmetology extending
over a period of not less than 8 months nor more than 7
consecutive years. A school of cosmetology may, at its
discretion, consistent with the rules of the Department,
accept up to 500 hours of barber school training at a
recognized barber school toward the l500 hour program
requirement of cosmetology. Time spent in such study
under the laws of another state or territory of the
United States or of a foreign country or province shall
be credited toward the period of study required by the
provisions of this paragraph; and
d. Has passed an examination authorized by the
Department to determine fitness to receive a license as a
cosmetologist. The requirements for remedial training set
forth in Section 3-6 of this Act may be waived in whole
or in part by the Department upon proof to the Department
that the applicant has demonstrated competence to again
sit for the examination. The Department shall promulgate
rules establishing the standards by which such
determination shall be made; and
e. Has met any other requirements of this Act.
(2) If the applicant applies for a license as a
cosmetologist on September 1, 2000 or September 2, 2000, the
Department may accept a verified 10 years of cosmetology
experience, which may include esthetics or nail technology
experience, before July 1, 2000 in lieu of the requirements
in items c and d of subsection (1) of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 91-863, eff. 7-1-00.)
(225 ILCS 410/4-2) (from Ch. 111, par. 1704-2)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2006)
Sec. 4-2. The Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, and Nail
Technology Committee. There is established within the
Department the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, and Nail
Technology Committee, composed of 11 persons designated from
time to time by the Director to advise the Director in all
matters related to the practice of barbering, cosmetology,
esthetics, and nail technology.
The 11 members of the Committee shall be appointed as
follows: 6 licensed cosmetologists, all of whom hold a
current license as a cosmetologist or cosmetology teacher
and, for appointments made after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1996, at least 2 of whom shall be an owner
of or a major stockholder in a school of cosmetology, one of
whom shall be a representative of a franchiser with 5 or more
locations within the State, one of whom shall be a
representative of an owner operating salons in 5 or more
locations within the State, one of whom shall be an
independent salon owner, and no one of the cosmetologist
members shall be a manufacturer, jobber, or stockholder in a
factory of cosmetology articles or an immediate family member
of any of the above; 2 of whom shall be barbers holding a
current license; one member who shall be a licensed
esthetician or esthetics teacher; one member who shall be a
licensed nail technician or nail technology teacher; and one
public member who holds no licenses issued by the Department.
The Director shall give due consideration for membership to
recommendations by members of the professions and by their
professional organizations. Members shall serve 4 year terms
and until their successors are appointed and qualified. No
member shall be reappointed to the Committee for more than 2
terms. Appointments to fill vacancies shall be made in the
same manner as original appointments for the unexpired
portion of the vacated term. Members of the Committee in
office on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996
shall continue to serve for the duration of the terms to
which they have been appointed, but beginning on that
effective date all appointments of licensed cosmetologists
and barbers to serve as members of the Committee shall be
made in a manner that will effect at the earliest possible
date the changes made by this amendatory Act of 1996 in the
representative composition of the Committee.
A majority of Committee members then appointed
constitutes a quorum. A majority of the quorum is required
for a Committee decision.
Whenever the Director is satisfied that substantial
justice has not been done in an examination, the Director may
order a reexamination by the same or other examiners.
(Source: P.A. 89-387, eff. 1-1-96; 89-706, eff. 1-31-97;
90-580, eff. 5-21-98.)
Section 10. The Electrologist Licensing Act is amended
by changing Section 33 as follows:
(225 ILCS 412/33)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2014)
Sec. 33. Grandfather provision. For a period of 12
months after the filing of the original administrative rules
adopted under this Act, the Department may issue a license to
any individual who, in addition to meeting the requirements
set forth in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) of Section 30,
can document employment as an electrologist and has received
remuneration for practicing electrology for a period of 3
years and can show proof of one of the following: (i) current
board certification by a national electrology certifying body
approved by the Department; or (ii) completion of 30 75
continuing education units in electrology approved by the
Department.
(Source: P.A. 92-750, eff. 1-1-03.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.