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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5337 - CC
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Government Operations (originally sponsored by Senators Haugen and Winsley)
Read first time 02/23/95.
AN ACT Relating to the state cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, and manicuring advisory board; amending RCW 18.16.050; creating a new section; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that the economic opportunities for cosmetologists, barbers, estheticians, and manicurists have deteriorated in this state as a result of the lack of adequately trained and experienced practitioners, inadequate licensing controls, and inadequate enforcement of health standards. To increase the opportunities for individuals to earn viable incomes in these professions and to protect the general health of the public, the state cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, and manicuring advisory board should be reconstituted and given a new charge to develop appropriate responses to this situation, including legislative proposals.
Sec. 2. RCW 18.16.050 and 1991 c 324 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
There is created a state cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, and manicuring
advisory board consisting of ((five)) seven members appointed by
the governor ((who shall advise the director concerning the administration
of this chapter. Four members of the board shall include a minimum of two
instructors with the balance made up of currently practicing licensees who have
been engaged in the practice of manicuring, esthetics, barbering, or
cosmetology for at least three years)). The seven members of the board
shall include: One administrator with vocational employment experience from
the employment security department; one representative with employee supervisory
experience from a salon chain having ten or more salons; one salon owner with
substantial experience in booth rental operations, who owns three or fewer
salons; one salon owner with substantial experience in employee-based salon
ownership, who owns three or fewer salons; one cosmetology school owner with
substantial experience in school operations with fewer than thirty students
average enrollment, who owns two or fewer schools; one cosmetology school owner
with substantial experience in school operations with more than thirty students
average enrollment, who owns two or fewer schools; and one member of the
board shall be a consumer who is unaffiliated with the cosmetology, barbering,
esthetics, or manicuring industry. The term of office for all board members
((is three years)) serving as of the effective date of this act
expires June 30, 1995. On June 30, 1995, the governor shall appoint seven new
members to the board. These new members shall serve a term of two years, at
the conclusion of which the board shall cease to exist. Any members serving on
the advisory board as of the effective date of this act are eligible to be
reappointed. Any board member may be removed for just cause. The ((director))
governor may appoint a new member to fill any vacancy on the ((committee))
board for the remainder of the unexpired term. ((No board member may
serve more than two consecutive terms, whether full or partial.))
(2) The board appointed on June 30, 1995, shall conduct a thorough review of educational requirements, licensing requirements, and enforcement and health standards for persons engaged in cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, or manicuring and shall prepare a report to be delivered to the governor and to the chairpersons of the government operations committees of the house of representatives and the senate. The report must summarize their findings and make recommendations, including, if appropriate, recommendations for legislation reforming and restructuring the regulation of cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, and manicuring.
(3) Board members shall be entitled to compensation pursuant to RCW 43.03.240 for each day spent conducting official business and to reimbursement for travel expenses as provided by RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 which compensation and reimbursement shall be disbursed by the director.
(4) Meetings of the board shall be called by the director, or at the request of any four members of the board, and may be held at such locations within the state as determined by the board. The director shall provide staff and technical support to the board as needed.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.
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