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Read. Follow. Verify.Iowa Senate File 316 authorizes dual esthetics and nail technology study and instructor paid services
Last action · May 12, 2025: Withdrawn. S.J. 965 .Sponsor: Jeff Reichman
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What This Bill Proposed
This bill allows licensed barbering and cosmetology instructors to perform paid services at their schools while not teaching, permits dual study for and licenses, and exempts licensed schools from separate establishment licensing.
Changes licensing rules, establishment requirements, and allowed commercial activities for cosmetology schools and instructors in Iowa.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Barbering and cosmetology instructors
Instructors are permitted to perform services for compensation at the school while not instructing students.
Students of esthetics and nail technology
Students gain the option to simultaneously study for licenses in both esthetics and nail technology.
Schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences
Schools are exempt from obtaining a separate license as an establishment.
Key Facts
- Instructors employed by a school of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences may perform paid services at the school while not instructing students.
- The board may approve a course of study allowing students to simultaneously study for esthetics and nail technology licenses.
- Students partially completing a combined course of study are ineligible for individual licensure unless they complete all requirements for that specific practice.
- The board is prohibited from approving study programs with substantially lower requirements than existing similar licenses or programs that are duplicative of currently operating ones.
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- Licensed schools of barbering and cosmetology where students or licensees practice are exempt from separate establishment licensing requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Withdrawn.
Procedural history
14 actions- May 12, 2025SenateWithdrawn. S.J. 965 .
- May 12, 2025SenateHF 711 substituted. S.J. 963 .
- May 12, 2025SenateFloorAmendment S-3142 adopted. S.J. 963 .
- May 8, 2025SenateAmendment S-3142 filed. S.J. 946 .
- Apr 3, 2025SenatePlaced on calendar under unfinished business. S.J. 689 .
- Mar 18, 2025SenateAttached to HF 711 . S.J. 554 .
Show 8 earlier actions
- Mar 6, 2025SenateCommittee report, approving bill. S.J. 442 .
- Mar 6, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, placed on calendar. S.J. 431 .
- Mar 6, 2025SenateCommittee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 551 . S.J. 442 .
- Mar 4, 2025Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee recommends passage.
- Feb 26, 2025Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 03/03/2025 2:30PM Room 217 Conference Room.
- Feb 25, 2025SenateSubcommittee reassigned: Reichman, Blake, and Campbell. S.J. 356 .
- Feb 20, 2025SenateSubcommittee: Reichman, Campbell, and Celsi. S.J. 326 .
- Feb 13, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, referred to State Government. S.J. 267 .
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 35)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz10Current news / social attention level
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