Legislative Alert - New Hampshire
January 3, 2006

Dear Industry Leader:

The NCEA was founded in January 2000 and over the past 5 years, we have been instrumental in setting National Standards that serve to protect our industry. It is the NCEA's position that 600 hours of education should be the minimum amount of training required prior to licensing of an esthetician. NCEA's Basic 600 Hour Esthetician Job Task Analysis represents the practical and theoretical knowledge that an Esthetician needs to work in today's skin care industry and should be implemented in every state. (Go to www.ncea.tv )

New Hampshire HB1589 is trying to reduce Esthetician Educational Requirements to only 100 hours.
If this bill passes in New Hampshire it will lower the required hours of education for training of estheticians from 600 hours to ONLY 100 hours. This will greatly decrease the level of professionalism of estheticans in New Hampshire and more importantly, will put consumers at risk by having uneducated, poorly trained estheticians adminstering treatments

NCEA URGES NEW HAMPSHIRE ESTHETICIANS TO ACT NOW

Contact the Bill Sponsor and Committee Members and tell them this proposed bill will affect your income and puts consumers at serious risk
Click on this link to go directly to the state web site. Click on each name on the page and send them your concerns. Be sure to include your full name and address in your email and have your voice counted!

This bill reduces the training requirements for licensure as barbers, cosmetologists, manicurists, and estheticians. The bill also requires topics of training adopted in rules of the board of barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics to relate to the protection of public health.

5 Qualifications; Estheticians. Amend RSA 313-A:13 to read as follows: 313-A:13 Qualifications; Estheticians. To be issued an esthetics license by the board, an applicant shall, in addition to satisfying the requirements of RSA 313-A:11, I(a), (b), and (e) have completed a course of at least [600] 100 hours of training in a school approved by the board and have passed an examination conducted by the board. An apprenticeship approved by the board may substitute for the required training. Estheticians who have practiced professionally in this state for a period of at least 3 years prior to July 1, 1989, and who have satisfied the requirements of RSA 313- A:11, I(a), (b), and (e) and the training requirements of this section shall not be required to take the examination provided for in this section to be eligible for licensure under this chapter. Credit towards the hours requirement for esthetician training may be given to a licensed cosmetologist or barber for equivalent training in the cosmetology or barber program in a school approved by the board upon certification of the training by the school. Cosmetologists licensed by the board may obtain the training hours in subjects required by the board in increments at separate schools but must present certifications to the board for all required hours and curriculum subjects. 6 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION IS CRUCIAL TO EDUCATE THE LEGISLATURE THAT PASSING OF THIS BILL WILL BE DEVASTATING AND INJURIOUS TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

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