The main force behind this bill is Alyssa Bowman, a Sport Clips franchise owner with 21 locations. Sport Clips is notorious for swooping in on students the second they’re out of school, and it’s wild to watch someone like that lead the charge to cut training. Cosmetology curriculum is already jam-packed. We’re talking sanitation and disease prevention, chemistry, safety, and a ton of hands-on work. I genuinely can’t imagine slicing 600 hours off a program that’s already information overload. If the real complaint is tuition costs and student loans, then that fight belongs in school reform. The answer is not to cheap out on education and pretend that less training somehow creates better, safer stylists. Cosmetology school is supposed to be a controlled environment where people can practice, make mistakes, and learn correctly before they’re responsible for the public. It’s not supposed to be an assembly line that pushes people out faster so salons can scoop them up immediately, and clients can end up paying the price with damaged hair or chemical burns. And what really pisses me off is this wasn’t brought forward with real input from the community it affects. It feels like it was introduced because Alyssa has connections, access, and a clear financial incentive to get more people into chairs faster so she can profit off them.