# Illinois SB2495: BCENT SUNSET EXTENSION Illinois SB2495, BCENT SUNSET EXTENSION, is a 104th General Assembly (2025–2026) Senate bill sponsored by Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Democratic); status signed, last action 2025-08-01 (Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0153); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB2495-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-11-01 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Illinois SB2495 - State: Illinois - Session: 104th General Assembly (2025–2026) - Title: BCENT SUNSET EXTENSION - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-07 - Last action: 2025-08-01, Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0153 - Sponsor: Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Democratic) - Cosponsors: 3 - Subjects: assignments, licensed activities, health care licenses - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 4 (188 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 28 ## 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. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Barber training counts toward cosmetology licenses: benefit, medium. 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 lic… - Beauty students get transcripts despite debt: benefit, medium. 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 compl… - Less retraining after failed licensing exams: benefit, medium. 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 appli… - More time to finish beauty training: benefit, medium. 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 t… - Stronger contract rights for beauty students: benefit, low. 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-… - Easier related licenses for beauty professionals: benefit, low. 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 a… - Less retraining after failed licensing exams: benefit, low. 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 follo… - More language options for barber exams: benefit, low. 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 pra… - More qualification options for beauty teachers: benefit, low. 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-tea… - More renewal relief for beauty professionals: benefit, low. 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 lic… - Online applications and longer licensing deadlines: benefit, low. 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,… - Spanish exams for beauty license applicants: benefit, low. 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… - Skin-growth training expands professionals' liability protection: benefit, low. 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… - State reviews beauty schools and salons: benefit, low. 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… - Public and correctional schools get exceptions: benefit, low. 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 o… - Applicants lose temporary barber and cosmetology practice: cost, low. 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 mon… - Esthetics workers face education completion checks: cost, low. 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: cost, low. 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: cost, low. 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 school… - Beauty businesses face broader state enforcement: cost, low. 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 busines… - Salons face display rules and penalties: cost, low. 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 viola… - Beauty education providers need state licenses: cost, low. 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: mixed, low. 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 furnis… - Beauty license contacts and citations move online: mixed, low. 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 pers… - Beauty professionals gain services, face limits: mixed, low. 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… - Salon ownership allowed with licensing safeguards: mixed, low. 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 certif… - Beauty licensing rules extended to 2031: mixed, low. 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: mixed, low. 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… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Bob Morgan (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Jawaharial Williams (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Kimberly A. Lightford (Democratic), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-05-22 | House | Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed | pass | 113 | 0 | | | 2025-04-23 | House | Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; | pass | 13 | 0 | | | 2025-04-09 | Senate | Third Reading - Passed; | pass | 56 | 0 | | | 2025-03-19 | Senate | Do Pass Licensed Activities; | pass | 6 | 0 | | ## Actions (29) - 2025-08-01: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0153 (Senate) - 2025-08-01: Effective Date January 1, 2026; Some Provisions (Senate) - 2025-08-01: Effective Date August 1, 2025; Some Provisions (Senate) - 2025-08-01: Governor Approved (Senate) - 2025-06-20: Sent to the Governor (Senate) - 2025-05-22: Passed Both Houses (Senate) - 2025-05-22: Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000 (House) - 2025-05-16: Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate (House) - 2025-05-16: Second Reading - Short Debate (House) - 2025-04-23: Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate (House) - 2025-04-23: Do Pass / Short Debate Health Care Licenses Committee; 013-000-000 (House) - 2025-04-23: Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jawaharial Williams (House) - 2025-04-17: Assigned to Health Care Licenses Committee (House) - 2025-04-09: Referred to Rules Committee (House) - 2025-04-09: First Reading (House) - 2025-04-09: Chief House Sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan (House) - 2025-04-09: Arrived in House (House) - 2025-04-09: Third Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 (Senate) - 2025-04-09: Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading (Senate) - 2025-04-04: Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading ** (Senate) - 2025-04-04: Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 1, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Second Reading (Senate) - 2025-03-19: Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-19: Do Pass Licensed Activities; 006-000-000 (Senate) - 2025-03-04: Assigned to Licensed Activities (Senate) - 2025-02-07: Referred to Assignments (Senate) - 2025-02-07: First Reading (Senate) - 2025-02-07: Filed with Secretary by Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton (Senate) ## Bill text - Engrossed: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB2495eng.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB2495enr.pdf) - Introduced: [PDF](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB2495.pdf) ## Related bills - HB5198: AFFORDABLE HOUSING-CILAS (passed house) - SB1937: PENSION CODE-VARIOUS (passed senate) - HB2563: CONDO-RESERVE STUDY (in committee) - HB4701: LIMITATIONS FACILITY FEES ACT (in committee) - SB3008: DHS-ABLE PROGRAM INFO MATERIAL (passed senate) - SB3484: VEH CD-PLATES-REGISTRATION (signed) ## Sources - [Engrossed (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB2495eng.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB2495enr.pdf) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/104/SB/PDF/10400SB2495.pdf) ## Related - [HB5198: AFFORDABLE HOUSING-CILAS](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB5198-2025-2026) - [SB1937: PENSION CODE-VARIOUS](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB1937-2025-2026) - [HB2563: CONDO-RESERVE STUDY](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB2563-2025-2026) - [HB4701: LIMITATIONS FACILITY FEES ACT](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-HB4701-2025-2026) - [SB3008: DHS-ABLE PROGRAM INFO MATERIAL](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB3008-2025-2026) - [SB3484: VEH CD-PLATES-REGISTRATION](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB3484-2025-2026) - [Illinois bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/illinois/bills) - [Illinois state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/illinois) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IL-SB2495-2025-2026 (as of 2026-11-01).