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IllinoisSB2495104th General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
BCENT SUNSET EXTENSION
Sponsored By: Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Summary
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Changes the repeal date of the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, Hair Braiding, and Nail Technology Act of 1985 from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2031. Amends the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, Hair Braiding, and Nail Technology Act of 1985. Defines "email address of record", "licensed continuing education sponsor", "licensed school", and "public member". Makes changes in provisions concerning the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act; an applicant's address of record; licensure requirements for each profession; unlicensed practice; abnormal skin growth education; display of a license; teacher education; examination of applicants for each profession; the practices that constitute cosmetology; inactive status of a license; the practices that constitute esthetics; investigations by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation; requisites for ownership or operation of a school under the Act; the periodic review of schools for each profession; enrollment agreements; school rules and refunds; grounds for disciplinary action; exceptions for public schools; licensure renewal; requisites for ownership or operation of cosmetology, esthetics, hair braiding, and nail technology salons and barber shops; powers and duties of the Department; the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, Hair Braiding, and Nail Technology Board; applications; the issuance of a license; fees; refusal, suspension, and revocation of licenses; practice without a license or after suspension or revocation thereof; hearings; record of proceedings; citations; and certifications of record. Makes conforming and other changes. Provides that the provisions concerning the Regulatory Sunset Act are effective immediately.
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28 provisions identified: 15 benefits, 7 costs, 6 mixed.
Barber training counts toward cosmetology licenses
Cosmetology applicants need 1,500 study hours; the former seven-year completion limit ends. A licensed cosmetology school can count up to 1,000 licensed barber-school hours, at its discretion and under state rules. Another path uses 1,500 barbering hours plus at least 500 cosmetology hours at a licensed barber school. The former one-year deadline for that added study ends. Applicants must be at least 16, meet school-education or attendance requirements, pass the exam, and pay required fees.
Beauty students get transcripts despite debt
Covered beauty schools must provide official transcripts of completed hours and grades despite debt covered by the Student Debt Assistance Act. Schools must keep withdrawal and dropout records for seven years from the student's first day of attendance. After that period, they need not provide completed-hour transcripts for students who withdrew or dropped out. Graduates' transcripts must be kept indefinitely.
Less retraining after failed licensing exams
Applicants who fail a fourth licensing exam no longer need to repeat a full training program before another attempt. Separate study requirements after three failed exams remain where specified. For nail technician applicants, that study drops from 60 hours to 24 hours. Nail technology teacher applicants still need 80 additional hours. The state can waive some or all of these nail-training hours under its rules.
More time to finish beauty training
The law removes the three-year limit for 1,500-hour barber training and the one-year limit for 500-hour additional barber training. Required hours and minimum training periods remain. Esthetics training still requires 750 hours over at least 18 weeks, but the four-year completion limit ends. Nail training still requires 350 hours over at least eight weeks, but the two-year completion limit ends.
Stronger contract rights for beauty students
Beauty and barber students can cancel their initial enrollment agreement until midnight on the fifth business day after enrollment. Schools cannot make students give up claims or defenses against the school, or keep school information or claims secret. Those contract terms are void. Required clear-and-conspicuous disclosures must use bold type of at least 10 points, larger than other text; cancellation and complaint notices also require all capitals. Schools must follow all parts of the Student Debt Assistance Act that apply to them.
Easier related licenses for beauty professionals
Certain active license holders can obtain or restore specified related licenses without completing each profession's additional licensing requirements. Eligible holders include cosmetologists and cosmetology, barber, esthetics, nail technology, and hair braiding teachers. They must apply for each added license and pay its fee. The state can set other requirements by rule.
Less retraining after failed licensing exams
After three failed exams, barber and cosmetologist applicants need 100 extra study hours instead of 250; cosmetologists must complete at least 100. Esthetician applicants need 50 hours instead of 125, and esthetics teacher applicants need 50 instead of 80. Cosmetology and esthetics study must follow the last exam; esthetics study must be at a licensed cosmetology or esthetics school. Esthetics teacher study covers teaching methods and educational psychology. A fourth failure no longer requires a new full program for barber or esthetics applicants, and Department rules allow study waivers.
More language options for barber exams
Applicants can request barber and barber-teacher exams in Spanish. The state must offer another requested language when it finds that language necessary under the Language Equity and Access Act. Barber and nail technician exams no longer have to be written. Both exams must still test theory and practical knowledge.
More qualification options for beauty teachers
The state can accept similar college coursework, including student teaching, instead of specified training for covered beauty teacher licenses. It can also accept a current Illinois professional educator or career and technical educator license with two years of teaching experience. Cosmetology-teacher applicants get shared-subject instruction credit after at least three years as licensed esthetics or nail technology teachers.
More renewal relief for beauty professionals
The state can waive continuing education for covered cosmetology, esthetics, nail technology, and hair braiding licensees caring for ill or disabled family members. It can also allow additional waiver reasons by rule. Teachers with Illinois professional educator or career and technical educator licenses can count qualifying educator-development hours toward covered teacher-license renewal. For covered cosmetology licenses, the state can accept licensees' statements confirming completed education, including for restoration. Audits and other verification methods remain available.
Online applications and longer licensing deadlines
Applicants can submit license applications electronically or in writing; nail technician applicants must use state forms and pay the required fee. Cosmetologists and covered cosmetology teachers can also send inactive-status and return-to-active notices either way. After notice of passing an exam, applicants have three years to apply for a license, up from one year. Missing that deadline requires passing the exam again.
Spanish exams for beauty license applicants
Applicants can request Spanish licensing exams in cosmetology, esthetics, and nail technology, including exams for teachers in those fields. The Department must provide those exams in Spanish when requested. It must also provide another requested language when it finds that language necessary under the Language Equity and Access Act.
Skin-growth training expands professionals' liability protection
Covered professionals who complete abnormal skin growth education, and their employers, receive civil and criminal liability protection. It covers good-faith actions or inaction concerning potential abnormal skin growth information obtained through professional work. The education no longer has to be part of continuing education.
State reviews beauty schools and salons
Beauty and barber school applications must include an official enrollment agreement that follows the law. Schools must get Department approval of student contracts and provide current agreements when requested. During school reviews, the Department can require course plans and inspect premises and records. It can discipline schools for contracts that break the law or its rules. The Department can also inspect covered salons and shops for compliance.
Public and correctional schools get exceptions
Licensed public beauty schools meet enrollment-agreement duties by following their public institution's requirements. The Secretary can waive program rules at qualifying correctional or public-school sites when rules conflict with operations, mission, safety, or security. Specified Federal Bureau of Prisons, county correctional, and public secondary-school programs do not need a school license.
Applicants lose temporary barber and cosmetology practice
Barber and barber-teacher applicants lose permission to work while awaiting or before passing the required exam. Cosmetology and covered teaching applicants also lose temporary permission to work while their license application is pending. That cosmetology permission previously lasted up to six months or ended earlier upon specified application events.
Esthetics workers face education completion checks
The Department must set rules for checking continuing education required to renew esthetics licenses. Checks may include audits, filed course certificates, licensee statements, or other Department methods.
Higher transcript fee cap for students
The first transcript from a covered beauty or barber school remains free. Schools may charge a reasonable fee up to $5 for each extra transcript, up from the former $2 cap. Schools may charge less, and applicable Student Debt Assistance Act limits still apply.
Licensed training schools need licensed teachers
Specified barber training and certificate paths must use state-licensed schools, rather than schools that are only approved. A cosmetology school offering a barbering certificate must also be licensed. Teachers at licensed barbering, cosmetology, esthetics, hair-braiding, and nail-technology schools must hold the matching teacher license. Esthetics and nail technology teacher applicants must also meet the Act's other requirements and rules. The Act remains in effect until January 1, 2031.
Beauty businesses face broader state enforcement
The state can investigate businesses holding or claiming to hold licenses or registrations. Investigations can start with the state or a verified written complaint alleging grounds for discipline. Hearing notices can be emailed to the address on file. The state can seek court orders against business entities violating the Act. For suspected violations of Section 1-7 or 3D-5, it can also begin proceedings seeking an order to stop the conduct.
Salons face display rules and penalties
Professionals must prominently display licenses and state information signs where clients enter or wait; registered salons and shops must display registrations and signs. The state can discipline registrations as well as licenses for listed grounds, including unlicensed operations, sanitation violations, and fraudulent use. A first citation for one listed violation can carry a nondisciplinary fee. Additional citations or multiple violations can bring nondisciplinary fees or disciplinary fines. Citation penalties cannot exceed $500 per violation.
Beauty education providers need state licenses
Providers need a state license before offering continuing education to cosmetologists, estheticians, nail technicians, hair braiders, or their teachers. The Department can set minimum standards for approved continuing education sponsors. It can also set renewal rules for schools and sponsors.
Hearing records preserved, court costs expanded
The Department must provide a certified shorthand reporter and preserve records of covered disciplinary hearings, including probation, reprimands, and fines. Interested people can obtain the record by paying the required statutory fee. For court review, the Department can require payment for furnishing and certifying the record before certifying it or appearing. Exhibits no longer qualify for free certification, and the law does not state the charge.
Beauty license contacts and citations move online
Beauty and barber license applicants and holders must provide a valid address and email when applying or renewing. They must report changes within 14 days through the Department website or its license maintenance unit. The Department can email citations to the address on file, or an unlicensed person's last known email address. Citations must be issued within six months after a violation is reported.
Beauty professionals gain services, face limits
Cosmetology includes chemical restructuring, lightening, coloring, cutting, and trimming facial hair, plus chemical restructuring of body hair. Esthetics includes chemical restructuring, lightening, and coloring of body hair other than scalp hair. The described esthetics skin-care practice excludes the scalp. These services cover beauty work, not treatment of disease or muscular or nervous disorders.
Salon ownership allowed with licensing safeguards
Unlicensed people may own or run covered salons and shops, but cannot personally provide services that require a license. They must employ at least one licensed manager. A licensed owner, operator, or manager must ensure compliance and post their name and license number with the registration certificate. Businesses need state registration in addition to local permits; registration rules also cover professional limited liability companies, corporations, and professional service corporations.
Beauty licensing rules extended to 2031
The law moves the repeal date for Illinois' beauty and barber licensing law from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2031. This keeps licensing duties and consumer protections in place for covered professionals, schools, salons, and shops.
School applications add disclosures, ease signatures
School applications must list owners', partners', or members' Department licenses, including license numbers and current status. Applicants must also report the license and operating status of schools they previously owned. The chief managing employee must certify the application under oath; extra owner, partner, or corporate officer signatures are no longer required. Government-run schools are exempt from the one-year lease or space-agreement requirement and the owner's financial-ability statement.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Suzy Glowiak Hilton
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Bob Morgan
Democratic • House
Jawaharial Williams
Democratic • House
Kimberly A. Lightford
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/22/2025
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed
Yes: 113 • No: 0
House vote • 4/23/2025
Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee;
Yes: 13 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/9/2025
Third Reading - Passed;
Yes: 56 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/19/2025
Do Pass Licensed Activities;
Yes: 6 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0153
8/1/2025SenateEffective Date January 1, 2026; Some Provisions
8/1/2025SenateEffective Date August 1, 2025; Some Provisions
8/1/2025SenateGovernor Approved
8/1/2025SenateSent to the Governor
6/20/2025SenatePassed Both Houses
5/22/2025SenateThird Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000
5/22/2025HousePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
5/16/2025HouseSecond Reading - Short Debate
5/16/2025HousePlaced on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
4/23/2025HouseDo Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 013-000-000
4/23/2025HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jawaharial Williams
4/23/2025HouseAssigned to Health Care Licenses Committee
4/17/2025HouseReferred to Rules Committee
4/9/2025HouseFirst Reading
4/9/2025HouseChief House Sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan
4/9/2025HouseArrived in House
4/9/2025HouseThird Reading - Passed; 056-000-000
4/9/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
4/9/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading **
4/4/2025SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
4/4/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 1, 2025
3/20/2025SenateSecond Reading
3/20/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2025
3/19/2025SenateDo Pass Licensed Activities; 006-000-000
3/19/2025Senate
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