MI HB4927

Reduces required training hours for barber licensure from 1,800 hours to 1,500 hours, whether completed through barber college coursework or an apprenticeship program

Decreases practical barber training hours at barber colleges from 1,575 hours to 1,275 hours, while maintaining 225 hours of classroom study, demonstrations, and recitations

Requires barbershops conducting apprenticeship programs to have at least one licensed barber present to supervise apprentices at all times when the shop owner is not a licensee

Allows licensed cosmetologists to substitute up to 1,000 hours of substantially similar instruction from a cosmetology school toward barber college requirements

Takes effect 18 months after enactment