Petition for Beauty Standards and Ending Senate Bill 87 and House Bill 266

  Human contact requires a license, and it's our job to protect the fundamentals of what we do. In a global pandemic, the last thing the beauty industry and the general public need is deregulation. Our safety is at risk. Senate Bill 87 and House Bill 266, sponsored by Sen. Curt Bramble and Rep. Candice Pierucci, seek to modify the state Cosmetology and Associated Professions Licensing Act to create a licensure exemption for a person who only "dries, styles, arranges, dresses, curls, hot irons, shampoos, or conditions hair."

  By signing this commitment, I am standing up for a professional standard within the beauty industry. A standard set by the professionals who exemplify health, safety, education, and service that the people of Utah can rely upon. With the efforts by Senator Bramble, Connor Boyack and the Libertas Institute, and other individuals who fail to understand a profession we uphold, the safety of our clients, our general health, and the standard of living of our families is in jeopardy. Unlicensed, unprofessional cosmetology will hurt not only client's health and quality of service, but it will also be used to delegitimize schools, deconstruct a decent standard of living our families rely upon and replace it with a flooded labor market and reduced income. Cutting permits and small concessions aren't enough to compensate for the overall reduction in safety, health and quality of life.
  By signing this commitment, I am taking a step as an individual to support my beauty professionals by making it known to the House, Senate and their representatives that Senate Bill 87 and House Bill 266 are unacceptable and are an attempt to deligitamize a professional health, safety and quality standard in the beauty industry. 
   We would never allow our medical professionals or other parts of our community to ignore education and proving oneself, so why should we? Let us stand together and resist Senate Bill 87 and House Bill 266 no matter what so our beauty industry can maintain its professionalsim and continue to create beauty and confidence for all of Utah.  
 
 
Take a stand for your beauty professionals, their families, safety and health!