Section 16-78-20 - Requirements for examination and license(a) Instructor applicants shall provide verification of: (1) Having a current beauty operator license or an instructor license;(2) Having one year experience as a licensed beauty operator; and(3) Satisfactorily completing not less than six hundred hours or four months of beauty school instructor training in this State or another jurisdiction having substantially equivalent standards. If the training is not substantially equivalent, the applicant shall provide verification of one year instructor experience.(b) Beauty operator applicants shall have an education equivalent to the completion of high school. One year experience as a licensed beauty operator in another jurisdiction shall satisfy the high school education requirement.(c) Beauty .operator applicants shall satisfy the beauty training requirement as a student at a beauty school, as an apprentice in a beauty shop, or being currently licensed in another jurisdiction.(1) Beauty training from another jurisdiction shall be accepted provided that the training is substantially equivalent to those as prescribed by the board. If the training is less than those prescribed by the board, then the applicant shall make up the difference as a beauty student or as an apprentice; or(2) The license of an applicant currently licensed in another jurisdiction shall be recognized provided that the jurisdiction has substantially equivalent training as prescribed by the board. If the training requirement is less than, those prescribed by the board, then the applicant shall make up the difference as a beauty student or provide verification of one year experience as a licensed beauty operator in that jurisdiction.[Eff 7/4/64; am and ren § 16-78-20, 7/2/81; am and comp 12/21/89; comp 2/22/05] (Auth: HRS §§ 439-7, 439-12) (Imp: §§ 439-11, 439-12)[Comp 3/17/2022] (Auth: HRS § 438-5)