Massachusetts: amendments for Massachusetts Means Business initiative

As part of the "Massachusetts Means Business" initiative, recommendations have been made for the Division of Occupational Licensure:

• "Remove barriers for vocational students from receiving credit hours for programs completed in public vocational secondary or post-secondary school programs, creating a faster and more affordable pathway to licensure.
• Remove outdated rules for businesses like eliminating the requirement that barber shops have poles installed to identify their businesses.
• Allow assistant instructors in aesthetics, cosmetology, and manicuring to be licensed for more than two years.
• Eliminate the high school graduation requirement for barber instructors and assistant instructors, which widens the talent pool.
• Reduce student and school size minimums and allow schools to use buildings not located at their registered address to teach students, creating more opportunity for education.
• Ease requirements to establish at-home salons by no longer requiring the entrance to be visible from the street and immediately accessible at the front or side of the property.
• Allow electrologists to perform services for any customer in their home, increasing professional opportunity.
• Increase the number of credit hours from a barber school that can be applied toward a cosmetology degree, so barbers can more easily qualify for a cosmetology license."

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