(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 21, 2003)

 

Senate Bill No. 372–Senator Schneider

 

March 17, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to cosmetology. (BDR 54‑886)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to cosmetology; authorizing certain providers of health care to practice in a cosmetological establishment under certain circumstances; prohibiting the State Board of Cosmetology from including certain personal information on a license or certificate which is required to be displayed publicly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. Chapter 644 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

1-2  thereto a new section to read as follows:

1-3  The Board shall not include on any license or certificate for

1-4  public display the residential address of the holder or any other

1-5  personal information relating to the holder, except the name of the

1-6  holder and the number of the license or certificate.

1-7  Sec. 2.  NRS 644.360 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-8  644.360  1.  Every holder of a license issued by the Board to

1-9  operate a cosmetological establishment shall display the license in

1-10  plain view of members of the general public in the principal office

1-11  or place of business of the holder.

1-12      2.  [The] Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the

1-13  operator of a cosmetological establishment shall lease space to or

1-14  employ only licensed manicurists, electrologists, aestheticians, hair

2-1  designers, demonstrators of cosmetics and cosmetologists at his

2-2  establishment to provide cosmetological services.

2-3  3.  The operator of a cosmetological establishment may lease

2-4  space at his cosmetological establishment to a provider of health

2-5  care for the purpose of providing health care within the scope of

2-6  his practice. The provider of health care shall not use the leased

2-7  space to provide such health care at the same time a cosmetologist

2-8  uses that space to engage in the practice of cosmetology.

2-9  4.  As used in this section, “provider of health care” means a

2-10  person who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by the

2-11  law of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of

2-12  business or practice of a profession.

2-13      Sec. 3.  NRS 644.477 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-14      644.477  [It] Except as otherwise provided in NRS 644.360, it

2-15  is unlawful for the operator of a cosmetological establishment to

2-16  practice or allow the practice of any profession other than

2-17  cosmetology in that establishment.

2-18      Sec. 4.  The provisions of section 1 of this act apply only to a

2-19  license or certificate issued or renewed on or after June 1, 2003.

2-20      Sec. 5.  1.  This section and sections 1 and 4 of this act

2-21  become effective upon passage and approval.

2-22      2.  Sections 2 and 3 of this act become effective on July 1,

2-23  2003.

 

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