Attending online? Sign up and we’ll send you info on logging into the meeting:

Prefer to join us in person in Austin? Great! The Summit will be held in Room 125E at the TDLR North Campus location, 1106 Clayton Lane, Austin TX 78723.

The Barbering and Cosmetology Advisory Board will hold their regular meeting at the same location that day, starting at 1 p.m.

New continuing education requirements go into effect on September 1, 2025.

Please note changes to the continuing education (CE) requirements for all licensees.

Starting on September 1, 2025, all Barber and Cosmetology licensees who have been licensed for fewer than 15 years must complete 4 hours of CE when they renew their license.

The 4 hours of CE must include the following:
• 1 hour in sanitation
• 2 hours of barber and/or cosmetology related information
• 1 hour of human trafficking prevention

Multiple License Holders
Individuals holding both a barber and cosmetology license: CEs taken for one license will satisfy the CE requirements for the other license(s).

License holders who have held a license for 15+ Years
Barbering and Cosmetology license holders who have held their license for 15 years or more are required to complete 2 hours of continuing education, as follows:
• 1 hour in sanitation
• 1 hour in human trafficking prevention

A dual license holder who has not held both licenses for 15 years or more must take the additional 2 CE hours in barbering and cosmetology related topics until both licenses have been held for 15 years.

You can search for approved continuing education providers on our website.

Thank you for your attention,

Education & Examination Team

• We have updated how enrollment and reporting of hours will be handled: Schools will enroll students and report all hours for Class A Barber and Cosmetology Operator students who enrolled after 7/1/24 under one permit.
• We have removed the core permit from SHEARS.
• All other course types will enroll students and continue to report hours as they have in the past.

Our IT Team is aware that there is an issue regarding the total hours being displayed for students in SHEARS in the drop and the show student hours screens. The list students screen does appear to be accurately displaying a student’s total hours. The IT team is working to resolve these issues.

Meanwhile, please be assured that the student’s total hours as reported by the school are still in our system; no hours are missing. The discrepancy seen on some screens in SHEARS does not affect the student’s hours that we have on file and does not negatively affect any student’s exam eligibility.

More Live Sessions Available!

Please check your SHEARS login page for links to new dates and times for Live Sessions. (Look for the “Book Now” button.) During these Live Sessions, you can ask questions and learn more about SHEARS or compliance during a live Teams videoconference. If no dates are currently available, please continue to check back. We’ll add new sessions each month. Please only sign up for one session so other schools have the opportunity to participate in a live session. 

Thank you for your patience over the past weeks.

Schools will continue to report core hours under the core permit and specialty hours under the specialty permit until we implement improvements in November that will streamline the posting process.

The new enrollment process will no longer require schools to enter a student’s data twice during enrollment.

We know you have questions about these processes, and we’ll be issuing additional instructions and guidelines to help you. We’ll post the FAQs that were collected during the previous Live Sessions to the website.

We are finalizing dates and times for more online Live Sessions where you can ask questions and learn more about the improvements we’re making.

Sign up for a training date and time.

Once you have passed your written exam, you will be able to apply online.

House Bill 1560 (87R) was passed by the 87th Texas Legislature and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on June 15, 2021, combining the Barbering and Cosmetology programs. As a result, on March 4, 2024, many barber businesses will receive an updated business license with a new license number and license type. Cosmetology businesses will receive an updated business license upon renewal.

WHO: All beauty salons, barber shops, dual shops/salons, mini-barbershops, mini-salons, mobile-type shops and salons

The following license types will receive a new license number and a new establishment license will be issued upon renewal:

• Barber shops
• Dual shops/salons
• Mini-barbershops and Mini-dual shops/salons
• Mobile barber shops and dual shops/salons
• Mobile specialty* salons

Beauty salons will keep the existing license numbers and only the heading and title will change. Upon renewal of your cosmetology business license, the updated establishment license will be mailed.

An online “crosswalk” is under development to help license holders retrieve their new license information. When the current (old) license number is entered into the crosswalk, the new license number and expiration date will be displayed. You will have access to your old license number through Search Licensees if you need to verify information pertaining to your establishment.

WHAT:

• All licenses will show the heading “Texas Barbering and Cosmetology” across the top of the license
• All licenses with “shop,” “salon,” “shop/salon,” titles will be replaced with the “establishment” title
• License types will change as seen in the table below:

If you hold multiple establishment licenses (for example a separate barber shop and beauty salon license), TDLR will use the expiration date from the license with the latest date.

How to Renew on, or After, 03/04/2024:

To renew a “shop,” “salon,” or “shop/salon” license online, click “Barbering & Cosmetology”.

Click License Renewal

Click Establishment License

Click the license type that applies to the “shop,” “salon,” or “shop/salon” license.

Beginning September 1, 2023, all licensed schools that have been issued a new certificate of approval authorizing them to teach both Barbering and Cosmetology courses can do so. The video covers how schools who have not yet been approved to teach both courses can move through the approval process.

Texas Barber School Forms

Forms and Publications for Cosmetology Schools | Texas.gov

As promised, we are providing the information you will need for a successful transition for barber and cosmetology schools.

• The certificate of approval that your school currently holds will remain valid and will not expire. Please remember that the certificate of approval for each school reflects the courses that your school is approved to offer and teach.
• If your school intends to teach new courses or make changes to distance education hours for the new school year that are not reflected on your certificate of approval, you will need to submit curriculum course applications for approval to offer those new courses and/or implement new distance education hours.
• Curriculum course applications can be submitted by using the E&E webform page: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation – Forms -TDLR – Education Form

If your school does not intend to make any changes to the courses you are currently teaching, or to the distance education you are offering, then you will not need to take any action or submit any information to TDLR.

All notices will go out via our GovDelivery Service so please ensure we have the correct email address on file for your school.

• BCS School — Student Practitioner signs -single page.pdf