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House Business Affairs & Labor

Thursday, January 29, 2026·52m·▶ Watch / Listen

At its first sunset hearing of the session, the House Business Affairs & Labor Committee unanimously advanced two draft sunset bills — continuing the Barber and Cosmetology Act for 11 years and repealing the dormant Business Intelligence Center Advisory Board — after an OLLS primer on how sunset review works.

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But once they complete all required hours, they are legally required to stop working entirely while they wait to take and pass their state board licensing exam. That creates a period of forced unemployment at the exact moment they've done everything the state has asked of them.

Eileen Kantor · witnessKantor argued for a supervised, time-limited provisional license to keep newly-trained apprentices working during the administrative gap before their exam.

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Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for being here in our first regular meeting of the House Business affairs and Labor Committee. Ms. Gerard, please call the roll. Representatives Brooks. Present. English. Gonzalez. Here. Kelty. Here. Leader. Present. Mabry. Here. Marshall. Here. Morrow. Here. Richardson. Here. Ryden. Excused. Sukla. Here. Camacho. Here. Madam Chair. Present. Thank you. Today we're going to hold sunsets. Sunset hearings on the Barber and Cosmetology act and the Business Intelligence Center Advisory Panel. Since this is our first sunset meeting, attorney Chris McMichael from the Office of Legislative Legal Services is here to present on the sunset review process. Mr. Michael, welcome and please proceed. Thank you. Good afternoon, members of the committee. My name is Christopher McMichael. I'm a staff attorney in the Office of Legislative Legal Services. Just giving a brief overview of the sunset process, a refresher from last year. So sunset bills are heard in committee for the first time before the bill is introduced. So what you have in front of you is a proposed bill. You will vote today whether or not to introduce the bill and it will be assigned to a committee of reference. Our office receives
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