Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules

611 W. Ottawa Street

Lansing, MI 48909

Phone: 517-335-8658 Fax: 517-335-9512

AGENCY REPORT TO THE

JOINT COMMITEE ON ADMNINISTRATIVE RULES (JCAR)

1. Agency Information

Agency name:

Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

Division/Bureau/Office:

Bureau of Professional Licensing

Name of person completing this form:

Dena Marks

Phone number of person completing this form:

517-335-3679

E-mail of person completing this form:

MarksD1@michigan.gov

Name of Department Regulatory Affairs Officer reviewing this form:

Elizabeth Arasim

2. Rule Set Information

MOAHR assigned rule set number:

2020-68 LR

Title of proposed rule set:

Barbers - General Rules

3. Purpose for the proposed rules and background:

The current rules pertain to sanitation requirements, patron protection, barber college requirements,

and barber college curriculum.

The rules will be amended to provide for rules to comply with MCL 339.1110, effective May 4, 2020,

which permits a barber college to accept hours of instruction completed at a state school of

cosmetology to be substituted for required courses in a barber college program, if they are

substantially similar.

All rules will be reviewed and may be revised for clarity or to provide up-to-date information and

requirements.

4. Summary of proposed rules:

MCL 24.242 and 24.245

Agency Report to JCAR-Page 2

The proposed revisions to the rules add definitions for terms used in the rule set and add the

requirements for licensure by endorsement and relicensure; establish the criteria to be used by a

barber college to determine whether instruction completed at a Michigan-licensed cosmetology

school is substantially similar instruction to course work required in a barber student’s program of

instruction; and require the school to notify the department of the substantially similar hours the

student was permitted to substitute in the student’s barber college curriculum. Revisions were also

made to the barber training curriculum for clarity.

5. List names of newspapers in which the notice of public hearing was published and

publication dates:

Flint Journal, July 15, 2021

Grand Rapids Press, July 15, 2021

Mining Journal, July 14, 2021

6. Date of publication of rules and notice of public hearing in Michigan Register:

8/1/2021

7. Date, time, and location of public hearing:

8/3/2021 11:00 AM at G. Mennen Williams Building Auditorium , 525 W. Ottawa Street, Lansing,

Michigan

8. Provide the link the agency used to post the regulatory impact statement and cost-benefit

analysis on its website:

https://ARS.apps.lara.state.mi.us/Transaction/RFRTransaction?TransactionID=196

9. List of the name and title of agency representative(s) attending public hearing:

Weston MacIntosh, Senior Policy Analyst, Boards and Committees Section, Bureau of Professional

Licensing

Dena Marks, Senior Policy Analyst, Boards and Committees Section, Bureau of Professional

Licensing

10. Persons submitting comments of support:

Gregory Stack

Benjamin Wisner

Unknown E-mailer

11. Persons submitting comments of opposition:

None.

12. Identify any changes made to the proposed rules based on comments received during the