HB 15: Deregulation of Professions and Occupations

• Eliminates requirement for yacht brokers to maintain separate licenses for each branch office and removes associated fees

• Repeals labor organization business agent licensure requirements, including registration, licensing, and permit regulations

• Creates "restricted barber" classification with reduced training requirement of 325 hours (versus 1,200 hours for full barbers) and allows practice of limited services like hair cutting and facial shaves

• Exempts hair braiding, hair wrapping, body wrapping, nail polishing, and makeup application from cosmetology licensing requirements when practiced exclusively

• Reforms architecture and interior design business licensing by replacing certificate of authorization requirements with qualifying agent approval, allowing individuals to qualify multiple business organizations and use fictitious names

• Eliminates certificate of authorization requirement for professional geologists and boxing commission knockdown timekeeper regulations

• Effective date: July 1, 2018