HOUSE BILL NO. 6481

A bill to amend 1980 PA 299, entitled

"Occupational code,"

by amending sections 411, 1102, 1106, 1109, 1110, 1111, 1114, 1117, and 1118 (MCL 339.411, 339.1102, 339.1106, 339.1109, 339.1110, 339.1111, 339.1114, 339.1117, and 339.1118), section 411 as amended by 2020 PA 388, sections 1106, 1109, 1111, and 1114 as amended by 1988 PA 463, section 1110 as amended by 2020 PA 27, section 1117 as amended by 2003 PA 207, and section 1118 as added by 1984 PA 25; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 411. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person that fails to renew a license or registration on or before the expiration date shall not practice the occupation, operate, or use the title of that occupation after the expiration date printed on the license or registration. A license or registration shall lapse lapses on the day after the expiration date.

(2) A person that fails to renew a license or registration on or before the expiration date is permitted to renew the license or registration by payment of the required license or registration fee and a late renewal fee within 60 days after the expiration date.

(3) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person that fails to renew a license or registration within the time period set forth in subsection (2) may be relicensed or reregistered without examination and without meeting additional education or training requirements in force at the time of application for relicensure or reregistration if all of the following conditions are met:

(a) The person applies within 3 years after the expiration date of the last license or registration.

(b) The person pays an application processing fee, the late renewal fee, and the per year license or registration fee for the upcoming licensure or registration period, subject to subsection (8).

(c) Any penalties or conditions imposed by disciplinary action in this state or any other jurisdiction have been satisfied.

(d) The person submits proof of having completed the equivalent of 1 year of continuing education within the 12 months immediately preceding the date of application or as otherwise provided in a specific article or by rule, if continuing education is required of licensees or registrants under a specific article.

(4) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a person may be relicensed or reregistered subsequent to 3 or more years after the expiration date of the last license or registration if the person shows that the person meets the requirements for licensure or registration as established by the department in rules or procedures, which may require a person to pass all or part of a required examination, to complete continuing education requirements, or to meet current education or training requirements.

(5) Unless otherwise provided in this act, a person that seeks reinstatement of a license or registration shall file an application on a form provided by the department, pay the application processing fee, and file a petition to the department and the appropriate board stating reasons for reinstatement and including evidence that the person can and is likely to serve the public in the regulated activity with competence and in conformance with all other requirements prescribed by law, rule, or an order of the department or board. The procedure for conducting the review of a petition for reinstatement is prescribed in article 5. If approved for reinstatement, the person shall pay the per year license or registration fee for the upcoming license or registration period if appropriate, in addition to completing any requirements imposed under section 203(2).

(6) The department shall issue an initial or renewal license or registration not later than 90 days after the applicant files a completed application. The application is considered received on the date the application is received by any agency or department of this state. If the application is considered incomplete by the department, the department shall notify the applicant in writing, or make information electronically available, within 30 days after receipt of the incomplete application, describing the deficiency and requesting the additional information. The 90-day period is tolled from the date the department notifies the applicant of a deficiency until the date the requested information is received by the department. The determination of the completeness of an application does not operate as an approval of the application for the license or registration and does not confer eligibility of an applicant determined otherwise ineligible for issuance of a license or registration.

(7) Notwithstanding the time periods described in subsection (6), in the case of a real estate broker and associate broker licensed under article 25, the time period for approval by the department of a completed application is 30 days and the time period for notification sent in writing, or made electronically available, by the department to the applicant regarding an incomplete application is 15 days after the receipt of the application by any agency or department of this state.

(8) If the department fails to issue or deny a license or registration within the time required by this section, the department shall return the license or registration fee, and shall reduce the license or registration fee for the applicant's next renewal application, if any, by 15%. A failure to issue or deny a license or registration within the time required under this section does not allow the department to otherwise delay the processing of the application, and the department shall place that application, when completed, in sequence with other completed applications received at that same time. The department shall not discriminate against an applicant in the processing of an application based on the fact that the license or registration fee was refunded or discounted under this subsection.

(9) The director shall submit a report by December 1 of each year to the standing committees and appropriations subcommittees of the senate and house of representatives concerned with occupational issues. The director shall include all of the following information in the report concerning the preceding state fiscal year:

(a) The number of initial and renewal applications the department received and completed within the 90-day time period described in subsection (6) and the 30-day time period described in subsection (7).

(b) The number of applications denied by the department.

(c) The number of applicants that were not issued a license or registration within the applicable time period and the amount of money returned to licensees and registrants under subsection (8).

(d) The number of applications denied by the department because of an applicant's lack of good moral character and a summary, by category of offense, of the criminal convictions on which those denials were based.

(10) Subsection (6) does not apply to a license or registration for any of the following:

(a) A certified public accountant and registered accountant under article 7.

(b) An agency non-owner manager of a collection agency under article 9.

(c) A barber, student barber, student instructor , or barber instructor under article 11.

(d) An employment and consulting agent of a personnel agency under article 10.

(e) A cosmetologist, manicurist, natural hair culturist, esthetician, electrologist, instructor, or registered student under article 12.

(f) A hearing aid salesperson and trainee under article 13.

(g) A mortuary science licensee, embalmer, or resident trainee in mortuary science under article 18.

(h) An individual architect, surveyor, or engineer under article 20.

(i) An individual landscape architect under article 22.

(j) An individual residential builder and alteration and maintenance contractor or a salesperson for a residential builder and alteration and maintenance contractor under article 24.

(k) A real estate salesperson under article 25.

(l) A real estate appraiser under article 26.

(11) Notwithstanding any provision in this act to the contrary, an individual or qualifying officer who is a licensee or registrant under this act and who is mobilized for military duty in the Armed Forces of the United States by the President of the United States is temporarily exempt from any renewal license fee, continuing education requirements, or other related requirements of this act applicable to that license or registration. It is the obligation of the licensee or registrant to inform the department by written or electronic mail of the desire to exercise the temporary exemption under this subsection. If the licensee applying for the temporary exemption is the individual responsible for supervision and oversight of licensed activities, the licensee shall provide notice of arrangements for adequate provision of that supervision and oversight to the department. The licensee or registrant shall accompany the request with proof, as determined by the department, to verify the mobilized duty status. If it receives a request for a temporary exemption under this subsection, the department shall make a determination of the requestor's status and grant the temporary exemption after verification of mobilized duty status under this subsection. A temporary exemption is valid until 90 days after the licensee's or registrant's release from the mobilized duty on which the exemption was based, but shall not exceed 36 months from the date of expiration of the license or registration.

(12) As used in this section, "completed application" means an application that is complete on its face and submitted with any applicable licensing or registration fees and any other information, records, approval, security, or similar item required by law or rule from a local unit of government, a federal agency, or a private entity but not from another department or agency of this state.

Sec. 1102. The board of barber examiners is created. Six members of the board shall have practiced as a barber for 3 years before appointment. One of those members shall be a journeyman barber. The provision in section 301 that requires 6 members of a board to be licensed does not apply to a board of barber examiners.

Sec. 1106. (1) The department shall issue a license as a student instructor to an individual who fulfills all of the following requirements:

(a) Has graduated from high school or provided documentation of an equivalent education acceptable to the department and the board.

(b) Is of good moral character.

(c) Is a licensed barber with not less than 2 years' experience.

(2) A student instructor shall not render barber services to the public in a barber college except incidentally as a teaching example or to correct or complete the work of a student.

(3) With the approval of the board, a student instructor may renew his or her license for an additional year.

Sec. 1109. (1) The department shall issue a license as an instructor to an individual who fulfills all of the following requirements:

(a) Is a licensed barber with not less than 2 years of experience.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (2), has completed 1 year of instruction in the teaching of barbering at a licensed barber college or has successfully completed 60 semester hours or 90 term hours in a course of instruction approved by the board at an accredited college or university and has 6 months of instruction in the teaching of barbering at a barber college.

(c) Has graduated from high school or has an equivalent education as approved by the department.

(d) Has passed an examination approved by the board and the department to determine the individual's fitness to practice as an instructor.

(e) Is of good moral character.

(2) For the purposes of fulfilling the requirements of subsection (1)(b), an individual who has been duly authorized under the laws of another state, jurisdiction, or country to instruct others in barbering may substitute 1 year of experience in barber instruction for the required training. The requirements of subsection (1)(a) and (d) shall not be waived on the basis of prior experience as an instructor.

Sec. 1110. (1) The department shall license a barber college that meets all of the following requirements:

(a) Through its owners or managers, has applied to the department for a license.

(b) Subject to subsection (6), provides an educational program that requires completion of 225 hours of classroom study, demonstrations, and recitations and 1,575 hours of practical barber training.

(c) Meets the sanitation standards required of barbershops as set forth in rules promulgated by the board and determined by inspection by the department.

(d) Files and maintains a corporate surety or cash bond of $10,000.00 conditioned on the faithful performance and satisfaction of the contractual rights of students enrolled in the barber college.

(e) Employs or contracts with not fewer than 2 full-time, licensed instructors and ensures that both of the following are met:

(i) At any time classroom study or theory training is given to any number of students, at least 1 instructor is present.

(ii) If practical training occurs, there is at least 1 instructor present for every 30 students at all times.

(f) Except as provided in subsection (7), is completely partitioned from any other place of business or dwelling. Except as provided in subsection (7), a person shall not conduct any other business from a barber college than the rendering of barber services and the teaching of barbering, although a barber college may sell at retail to patrons those preparations used on patrons who are receiving barbering services from students.

(g) Provides reasonable classroom facilities and other equipment for the proper instruction of students described in this subdivision and rules promulgated by the board, including 1 stationary wash basin with hot and cold running water and a connected drain for every 2 barber chairs. A barber college shall arrange its enrollment and course scheduling so that students are not required to share the use of a training station during any practical training period.

(2) Except as provided in this subsection, a student instructor may not instruct without a supervising instructor present in the room. In case of emergency, a student instructor may instruct up to 30 students, but the barber college shall provide notice of the emergency to the department in writing and ensure that an instructor is on the premises at all times. Use of a student instructor as a substitute instructor under this subsection shall not continue for more than 7 consecutive days without written approval of the department certifying the emergency circumstances.

(3) The license of a barber college is automatically revoked if there is a transfer of ownership or change of location of a barber college. The department shall not grant a new license to new owners or for a new location unless the requirements of subsection (1) are met.

(4) The classroom courses of a barber college shall must include at least all of the following: scientific fundamentals for barbering; hygiene; bacteriology; histology of hair, skin, and nails; structure of the head, face, and neck, including muscles and nerves; elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics; diseases of the skin, hair, glands, and nails; massaging and manipulating the head, face, and neck; haircutting and shaving; cosmetic therapy; arranging, styling, dressing, coloring, bleaching, curling, permanent waving, and tinting of the hair; elements of business training; and barber laws and rules of the state.

(5) The department by rule shall prescribe the number of hours of instruction a barber college is required to provide for each subject set forth in subsection (4). Each barber college shall provide a written copy of the rules to each student at the beginning of his or her instruction.

(6) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), and section 1108(1)(c), if a student of a barber college is licensed as a cosmetologist under article 12, the barber college may allow the student to substitute hours of instruction completed at a state school of cosmetology for hours of instruction that are substantially similar in content to hours of instruction at the barber college. However, a barber college shall not allow a student to substitute more than 1,000 hours of substantially similar instruction from a state school of cosmetology for hours of instruction at the barber college under this subsection. The department by rule shall establish criteria for determining whether an hour of instruction at a state school of cosmetology is substantially similar to an hour of instruction at a barber college. As used in this subsection and subsection (7), "state school of cosmetology" means a school of cosmetology that is licensed under article 12.

(7) A barber college and a state school of cosmetology may occupy the same building and share facilities.

(8) A barber college shall display the license of the barber college and all instructors , and student instructors , and students in a prominent place visible to the public at all times. An individual's license may be displayed at the individual's work station.

Sec. 1111. (1) The department shall issue a license to a barbershop which that fulfills all of the following requirements:

(a) Has made, through its owner, application to the department. The application shall must include a description of the premises for which licensure is sought.

(b) Has satisfactorily passed an inspection to determine that the barbershop has met sanitation and establishment standards prescribed in rules promulgated under this article.

(2) A barbershop shall must be completely partitioned from a dwelling and shall must not be occupied for lodging or residential purposes.

(3) The transfer of ownership or location of a barbershop shall automatically revoke its revokes the barbershop's license. A new license shall must not be granted to a new owner or at a new location unless the requirements of subsection (1) have been fulfilled.

(4) The licenses license of the a barbershop and all barbers working in the barbershop shall must be displayed in a prominent place visible to the public at all times. The license of an individual barber may be posted at the barber's work station.

Sec. 1114. A student instructor, barber, instructor, barbershop, or barber college license shall must be renewed by completing a form provided by the department on or before the date prescribed in rules promulgated by the department. A barber or An instructor who fails to renew a license for 3 or more years shall be required by the board to complete the licensing examination.

Sec. 1117. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, barber services shall must only be rendered in premises licensed by the department under this article. A barber may render services outside of a barbershop to a patient in a hospital, nursing home, home for the aged, or similar facility or to a person in the person's home if it is impractical or unsafe for the patient or person to travel due to frailty, age, injury, or illness.

(2) The department may issue a demonstration permit, valid for not longer than 1 year, to allow demonstrations on premises not in use as a barbershop. The holder of a demonstration permit shall maintain health, safety, and sanitation standards as set forth in rules authorized under this article. The department may issue a demonstrator permit, valid for no longer than 1 week, to a person not licensed in this state to perform barbering services solely for the purposes of demonstration, provided that the demonstrator is duly authorized to perform barbering services under the laws of another state, jurisdiction, or country.

Sec. 1118. In addition to other penalties prescribed by law, a licensee who commits 1 or more of the following shall be subject to the strictures set forth in article 6:

(a) As a student, receiving compensation for performing the services of a barber.

(b) Continuing to practice while knowingly having an infectious or communicable disease.

(c) Operating in an unsanitary manner; failure manner and failing to abide by sanitation standards set forth in rules authorized under this article.

(d) Wilfully Willfully violating the health and safety rules of any political subdivision.

(e) Aiding an applicant for licensure by misrepresenting a material fact.

(f) Failing to notify the department within 30 days of a change of name or address.

(g) Allowing a license to be used by an unlicensed person.

(h) Hiring or permitting an unlicensed person or student to work in a barbershop as a barber or permitting an unlicensed person to attend barber college as a student.

(h) (i) Operating as a barber from premises not licensed under this article, except as otherwise provided in this article.

(i) (j) Refusal to allow a board member or representative of the department to inspect during regular business hours premises where barbering services are rendered.

(j) (k) Negligent, incompetent, or careless practice causing damage to a person's hair, skin, scalp, nails, or organs.

Enacting section 1. Sections 1104, 1105, and 1108 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339.1104, 339.1105, and 339.1108, are repealed.