House File 599 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE 599
BY MAXWELL
(COMPANION TO SF 350 BY
DRISCOLL)
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to barbering apprenticeship programs.
2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 Section 1. Section 158.2, subsection 3, Code 2021, is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 3. Students enrolled in licensed barber schools or schools
4 of cosmetology arts and sciences, or students enrolled in a
5 barbering apprenticeship training program registered by the
6 office of apprenticeship of the United States department of
7 labor, who are practicing under the instruction or immediate
8 supervision of an instructor.
9 Sec. 2. Section 158.3, subsection 3, Code 2021, is amended
10 to read as follows:
11 3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1, any
12 person who completes the application form prescribed by the
13 board and who completes a barbering apprenticeship training
14 program registered by the office of apprenticeship of the
15 United States department of labor while committed to the
16 custody of the director of the Iowa department of corrections
17 shall be allowed to take the examination for a license to
18 practice barbering.
19 b. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1, any other
20 person who completes the application form prescribed by the
21 board and who completes a barbering apprenticeship training
22 program offered by a barbershop in this state shall be allowed
23 to take the examination for a license to practice barbering.
24 Sec. 3. NEW SECTION. 158.9A Barbershops —— apprenticeship
25 training programs.
26 1. A barbershop may create a barbering apprenticeship
27 training program registered by the office of apprenticeship
28 of the United States department of labor. A barbershop shall
29 not offer an apprenticeship training program within forty-five
30 miles of a barber school licensed pursuant to section 158.7.
31 2. A barbershop shall provide the name of each apprentice
32 participating in an apprenticeship training program to the
33 board and any other information required by the board. The
34 board may charge a fee of no more than twenty dollars per
35 apprentice to a barbershop.
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1 3. The board shall adopt rules for the implementation of
2 this section.
3 EXPLANATION
4 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
5 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
6 This bill allows barbershops to provide barbering
7 apprenticeship training programs registered by the office of
8 apprenticeship of the United States department of labor. A
9 barbershop shall not offer an apprenticeship training program
10 within 45 miles of a licensed barber school. The bill requires
11 a barbershop to report to the board of barbering the name of
12 each person enrolled in an apprenticeship training program, as
13 well as such other information as the board may require, and
14 allows the board to charge a barbershop a fee of no more than
15 $20 per apprentice. A person who completes an apprenticeship
16 training program offered by a barbershop in this state shall
17 be allowed to take the examination for a license to practice
18 barbering.
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 158.2