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Information on appointment of board members, terms of service, and candidate requirements
Licensing standards, approval of institutions, disciplinary action, and fee and exam information
Requirements for cosmetology, aesthetics, and manicuring licenses, and general requirements for all board licenses
Cosmetology, manicuring, and aesthetic salon licensing and operating requirements
Licensure, operations, and curriculum requirements for public vocational secondary and public post-secondary school programs
Licensure and operations requirements for aesthetics schools
Licensure and operations requirements for programs offering advanced instruction to licensed cosmetologists, aestheticians, manicurists, or barbers
License requirements for manicuring schools
Barber eligibility requirements for individuals, general provisions, and licensure information for barber shops and barber schools
General regulations for electrology, including license renewal, and applying to open an office or become an instructor
Application details and board standards for evaluating electrology schools for licensure
Continuing Education Requirements for Electrology
Restrictions enforced before June of 2019
Regulations on procedures that cosmetologists, manicurists, aestheticians, barbers, and electrologists can perform
Mobile Cosmetology and Barbering Services, Requirements, Licensing, and Restrictions
Guidance on conditions under which an applicant with a history of criminal convictions must be reviewed further by the board
Licensed aesthetician, cosmetologist and electrologist provisions for using Intense Pulsed Light (“IPL”) technology
Requirements for those operating a business or offering services under a name that is different from the name of the shop they are working in
Requirements of dictionary allowed and how it may be used for exams
Apprentice and shop-employed student program requirements and restrictions
Responsibilities of schools that are closing and information for students affected by closure
Requirements for licensed schools and post-secondary institutions offering programs with more than the minimum number of hours required for licensure
Conditions under which a student can earn required curriculum hours at an event at a non-school location
Guidelines for asynchronous, synchronous, hybrid, distance-based, and in-person learning
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