HOUSE BILL No. 6127

May 20, 2008, Introduced by Rep. David Law and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

     A bill to amend 1980 PA 299, entitled

 

"Occupational code,"

 

by amending sections 1201, 1203, 1203b, 1204, and 1217 (MCL

 

339.1201, 339.1203, 339.1203b, 339.1204, and 339.1217), sections

 

1201 and 1217 as amended and section 1203b as added by 1997 PA 97

 

and section 1204 as amended by 2003 PA 57.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1201. As used in this article:

 

     (a) "Apprentice" means an individual engaged in learning

 

cosmetology in a cosmetology establishment.

 

     (b) "Braiding" means providing or offering to the general

 

public for compensation any of the following services solely for

 

development or improvement of physical qualities of the natural


 

hair structure:

 

     (i) Intertwining in a systematic motion to create patterns in a

 

3-dimensional form.

 

     (ii) Inversion or outversion flat against the scalp along the

 

part of a straight or curved row.

 

     (iii) Twisting in a systematic motion.

 

     (iv) Extension with natural or synthetic fibers.

 

     (c) "Cosmetologist" means an individual who renders or offers

 

to render cosmetology services.

 

     (d) "Cosmetology" means 1 of the following services or a

 

combination of the following services:

 

     (i) Hair care services.

 

     (ii) Skin care services.

 

     (iii) Manicuring services.

 

     (iv) Electrology.

 

     (e) "Cosmetology establishment" means the premises on which

 

cosmetology or 1 or more of its services are rendered or are

 

offered to be rendered. The location in which cosmetology services

 

are being conducted by the holder of a permit is considered

 

temporarily to be the premises on which mobile services are

 

rendered for purposes of the rules promulgated under section 1203.

 

Cosmetology establishment does not include a school of cosmetology.

 

     (f) "Electrologist" means an individual who renders or offers

 

to render electrology.

 

     (g) "Electrology" means the permanent removal of hair from the

 

body of an individual by the use of electricity.

 

     (h) "Esthetician" means an individual who renders or offers to


 

render skin care services.

 

     (i) "Hair care services" means arranging, cutting, dressing,

 

curling, waving, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, coloring, tinting,

 

trimming, styling, relaxing, perming, straightening, or similar

 

work upon the hair of the head or a wig that an individual is

 

wearing.

 

     (j) "Instructor" means an individual who teaches or offers to

 

teach 1 or more cosmetology services in a school of cosmetology.

 

     (k) "Manicuring services" means the cleansing, filing,

 

shaping, buffing, polishing, or beautifying of the nails of the

 

hands or feet, and the cleansing, massaging, stimulating,

 

exercising, or beautifying of the skin of the hands, arms, and

 

feet, manually or with the use of tools, appliances, or cosmetic

 

preparations, including the repair of nails, or the creation or

 

decoration of artificial nails. Manicuring services do not include

 

the practice of podiatric medicine and surgery as defined in

 

section 18001 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL

 

333.18001.

 

     (l) "Manicurist" means an individual who renders or offers to

 

render manicuring services.

 

     (m) "Mobile services" means the following cosmetology

 

services:

 

     (i) The cutting, perming, or coloring of hair.

 

     (ii) Manicuring services.

 

     (iii) The waxing, beautifying of the face by the use of cosmetic

 

preparations and application of removable makeup, and giving of

 

basic facials.


 

     (n) (m) "Natural hair cultivation" means techniques that

 

result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping,

 

weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of the hair by hand, which

 

work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals,

 

or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl, or

 

alter the structure of the hair.

 

     (o) (n) "Natural hair culturist" means a person engaged in

 

natural hair cultivation but does not include a person engaged in

 

natural hair cultivation if that activity is performed as part of

 

the practice of a recognized religion.

 

     (p) "Permit" means a permit issued under section 1204 for the

 

provision of mobile services.

 

     (q) (o) "Owner" means a person who owns and conducts a

 

cosmetology establishment or a school of cosmetology.

 

     (r) (p) "School of cosmetology" means the premises where

 

cosmetology or 1 or more of its services are taught.

 

     (s) (q) "Skin care services" includes the following services

 

or combination of services:

 

     (i) Beautifying the skin of the body of an individual by the

 

use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or

 

creams, including body wrapping.

 

     (ii) Cleansing or stimulating the skin of the body by the use

 

of the hands, devices, apparatus, or appliances, with or without

 

the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or

 

creams.

 

     (iii) The temporary removal of hair from the body of an

 

individual by the use of depilatories, waxes, razors, scissors,


 

clippers, or tweezers.

 

     (iv) Giving facials, applying removable makeup, applying

 

eyelashes, or any other application of a preparation or beauty

 

enhancement to the body of an individual but does not include

 

applying permanent makeup or the use of tanning equipment.

 

     (t) (r) "Student" means an individual engaged in learning

 

cosmetology or 1 or more of its services in a school of

 

cosmetology.

 

     Sec. 1203. (1) The director of the department, and in

 

consultation with the board, shall promulgate sanitary rules they

 

he or she considers consider necessary, with particular reference

 

to the precautions necessary to be employed to prevent the

 

spreading of an infectious or contagious disease, and shall arrange

 

an inspection as they consider considered necessary to safeguard

 

the public health.

 

     (2) Not later than 18 months after the effective date of the

 

amendatory act that added this subsection, the director of the

 

department, in consultation with the board, shall promulgate rules

 

to provide for the sanitary standards and other standards he or she

 

considers necessary to protect the public health in the

 

implementation of the permits for mobile services.

 

     Sec. 1203b. (1) A person shall not conduct or operate a

 

cosmetology establishment or school of cosmetology without a school

 

or establishment license issued under this article.

 

     (2) Beginning the effective date of the rules promulgated

 

under section 1203, the holder of a cosmetology establishment

 

license may apply to the department for the issuance of a permit


 

allowing the provision of mobile services at a location outside of

 

the licensed cosmetology establishment. The rendering of the mobile

 

services shall be in the manner provided for in the rules

 

promulgated under section 1203.

 

     Sec. 1204. (1) The department shall issue a license to a

 

person for the operation of a cosmetology establishment if all of

 

the following requirements are met:

 

     (a) An application is submitted by the owners or managers of

 

the establishment.

 

     (b) The application includes a drawing or diagram indicating

 

the premises to be licensed and the location of required equipment

 

and facilities.

 

     (c) The premises has satisfactorily passed an inspection

 

conducted by the department for the purpose of determining whether

 

the establishment has met sanitation and equipment standards

 

prescribed in rules promulgated by the director.

 

     (d) Except as provided in subsection (3), the cosmetology

 

establishment shall be under the daily attendance and supervision

 

of a licensed cosmetologist who is not less than 18 years of age

 

and has had not less than 1 year's practical experience in

 

cosmetology.

 

     (2) A cosmetology establishment shall be completely separated

 

by full partitions and doors from a dwelling or a school of

 

cosmetology.

 

     (3) The department may issue a limited cosmetology

 

establishment license to a person who seeks to perform only 1 or

 

more services of cosmetology on the premises. If the establishment


 

license is limited to only manicuring services or skin care

 

services, the supervising licensee may be an individual licensed

 

only in that service. A licensed cosmetologist working in a limited

 

licensed cosmetology establishment shall not perform cosmetology

 

services for which the premises are not licensed. If the

 

cosmetology establishment license is limited to electrology, the

 

supervising licensee shall be a licensed electrologist. A licensed

 

cosmetologist shall not supervise a cosmetology establishment whose

 

cosmetology license is limited to rendering electrology unless the

 

cosmetologist is licensed as an electrologist.

 

     (4) The department may grant a temporary establishment license

 

to a person who has fulfilled all licensure requirements except for

 

the completion of the inspection.

 

     (5) The department may issue a mobile services permit to the

 

holder of a cosmetology establishment license upon submission of a

 

completed application to the department and payment of a mobile

 

services permit fee of $75.00. A permit is considered a license for

 

purposes of articles 5 and 6, and a violation of this act and the

 

rules regarding permits is considered a violation against both the

 

cosmetologist and the cosmetology establishment.

 

     (6) (5) The transfer of ownership or location of a cosmetology

 

establishment voids the license. The filing of a new license

 

application is a predicate to the change in ownership or location

 

of an establishment.

 

     (7) (6) The license of the establishment and of each

 

individual working in the establishment shall be displayed in a

 

prominent place which is visible to the public at all times. The


 

license of an individual working in the establishment may be posted

 

at the individual's work station.

 

     Sec. 1217. A licensee who commits or has committed 1 or more

 

of the following is subject to the penalties set forth in article

 

6:

 

     (a) Continued practice by a person knowingly having an

 

infectious or contagious disease.

 

     (b) Practicing cosmetology on the public outside of a licensed

 

cosmetology establishment or school of cosmetology unless the

 

practice is conducted pursuant to a valid mobile services permit.

 

However, a licensed cosmetologist may serve a patron in premises

 

not licensed as a cosmetology establishment provided that the

 

services rendered involve a special event in which the cosmetology

 

service is required to be performed for an on-site participant of

 

the event.

 

     (c) Contracting with, being employed by, or being provided

 

space or leasing space from a hospital, nursing home, convalescent

 

home, or similar facility for the purpose of practicing

 

cosmetology, without a cosmetology establishment license. However,

 

a licensed cosmetologist may practice on a patient in a hospital,

 

nursing home, convalescent home, or similar facility, or on a

 

person requiring home care because of an illness or infirmity.