Instructor Renewal and Inactive License Requirements

PURPOSE: This rule establishes requirements of the statutes pertaining to renewal of instructor license. (1) In this section, the following terms shall mean: (A) License—shall include certificate of registration and the term licensee shall include registrant; and (B) Inactive license—a currently licensed “Class CA,” “Class CH,” “Class MO,” or “Class E” cosmetologist who has signed an affidavit that he/she is not practicing cosmetology in Missouri. (2) Renewals. Every two (2) years (biennially) the renewal application for active licensees must be completed, signed, accompanied by the appropriate renewal fee, and returned to the board office prior to the expiration date of the license. The biennial instructor renewal fee shall be submitted in addition to the regular operator renewal fee. (A) Renewal is contingent upon attending a board-approved seminar and submitting to the board proof of eight (8) hours of attendance issued by seminar sponsors, showing the date and place of the seminar. Each licensed instructor shall be required to attend a board-approved seminar within the two (2) years immediately preceding the renewal date and shall submit evidence of attendance with the renewal application. For purposes of this rule, the required eight (8) hours of attendance at a board-approved seminar may be completed in a virtual program approved by the board that is contemporaneously or simultaneously, visually and verbally, interactive. (B) Each instructor shall indicate on his/her instructor renewal application the school name and location where he/ she is currently employed as an instructor or must state if he/ she is not currently employed as an instructor. (C) Instructors holding a Missouri license, but not teaching or residing in Missouri, may attend an approved seminar of the state in which they reside for license renewal providing the program is sponsored by a university or bona fide cosmetology association and is at least eight (8) hours. All seminar certifications shall contain a sworn statement from that state board that the program was approved for instructor license renewal. Should the state not have continuing education requirements for instructor license renewal, then the instructor license renewal would be contingent upon attending a seminar approved by the board. (D) Instructor licenses shall expire on September 30 of each odd-numbered year. The biennial renewal fee shall be due and payable by the expiration date and if the fee remains unpaid after that, a late fee shall be charged in addition to the renewal fee. (E) Failure of a licensee to receive the notice and application to renew his/her license shall not excuse him/her from the requirements of section 329.120, RSMo to renew that license. A license, which has not been renewed prior to the renewal date, or placed on inactive status, shall expire on the renewal date. Any licensee who fails to renew shall not perform or offer to perform any act for which a license is required. (3) Inactive Licenses. An instructor may choose to place his/ her license on an inactive status by signing a change in licensure status affidavit stating that he/she will not engage in the practice of instructing cosmetology in Missouri and submitting that application to the board office along with the inactive license fee. An inactive license will only be issued to individuals requesting inactive status. (A) If an inactive instructor decides to again practice cosmetology he/she must complete a reactivation application and submit it along with the current renewal fee. Each inactive instructor shall attend a board approved seminar within the two (2) years immediately preceding the reactivation date and submit evidence of attendance with the reactivation application for each activated license. (B) An inactive instructor is not eligible to teach while holding an inactive license and will be subject to disciplinary action if he/she teaches or offers to teach in Missouri. (4) Approval of Instructor Seminar Training. (A) All seminar programs must be submitted by the sponsoring university or association to the board for approval prior to the first day of the calendar year in which the seminar is scheduled to be held and no later than sixty (60) days prior to the scheduled date of the seminar. Seminar programs submitted for approval must include the following information: 1. A copy of the proposed program schedule; 2. An outline of the subject matter; 3. The identity and qualifications of the speakers or instructors; and 4. The number of hours of the presentation (minimum of eight (8) hours required). (B) Seminar sponsors shall be responsible for accurate attendance records and shall provide the board with an alphabetical listing of names, addresses, and license numbers of those granted certificates of attendance and shall furnish evidence of attendance to the instructors showing the date and place of the seminar, signed by the sponsor secretary, or chairman, and shall indicate state board approved. AUTHORITY: sections 329.025.1 and 329.085, RSMo Supp. 2023.* Original rule filed Aug. 1, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. Amended: Filed Nov. 26, 2013, effective July 30, 2014. Amended: Filed May 1, 2024, effective Oct. 30, 2024. *Original authority: 329.025, RSMo 2005, amended 2008, 2018, and 329.085, RSMo 1989, amended 1995, 1997, 2001, 2018.