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Assembly Bill A8266

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Limits the sale of chemical hair relaxers and permanent hairstyle kits

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2025-A8266 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-tt, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9068

2025-A8266 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the sale of chemical hair relaxers and permanent hairstyle kits to licensed cosmetologists.

2025-A8266 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8266
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  limiting  the
   sale of chemical hair relaxers and at-home permanent hairstyle kits to
   licensed cosmetologists

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 399-tt to read as follows:
   § 399-TT. SALE  OF  CERTAIN  COSMETOLOGY  PRODUCTS.  1.  (A)  FOR  THE
 PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION "CHEMICAL HAIR RELAXER" SHALL MEAN ANY PRODUCT
 THAT IS DESIGNED TO STRAIGHTEN CURLY, COILED, OR TIGHTLY COILED HAIR  BY
 BREAKING THE DISULFIDE BONDS FOUND WITHIN A PERSONS HAIR;
   (B)  "PERMANENT  HAIRSTYLE KIT" SHALL MEAN ANY PRODUCT THAT ALTERS THE
 STRUCTURE IN A PERSONS HAIR TO CREATE A HAIRSTYLE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS, A
 PERM; AND
   (C) "ENTITY" SHALL MEAN ANY BUSINESS, FIRM, PARTNERSHIP,  ASSOCIATION,
 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, OR CORPORATION.
   2.  ANY  ENTITY  LICENSED OR AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF
 NEW YORK THAT PROVIDES COSMETOLOGY PRODUCTS SHALL ONLY SELL OR OFFER FOR
 RETAIL SALE CHEMICAL HAIR RELAXERS OR PERMANENT HAIRSTYLE KITS TO  INDI-
 VIDUALS  LICENSED  IN  THE  PRACTICE  OF COSMETOLOGY PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
 TWENTY-SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11888-01-5

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