---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS (Reduces the number of hours of instruction required to obtain a hairdresser's and cosmetician's license from fifteen hundred (1,500) to twelve hundred (1,200) hours.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS (Reduces the number of hours of instruction required to obtain a hairdresser's and cosmetician's license from fifteen hundred (1,500) to twelve hundred (1,200) hours.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 194"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 194 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Licenses", "Business & Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cote", "Gallo", "Goodwin", "Pearson", "Ruggerio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b155fbbe-3b2a-494f-8cdc-48a3796cdec8"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "07ab907035b7734d3d883410a8bf4deaefca725d4dfd38f262e0990d148a9acd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---

# Rhode Island SB 194 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS (Reduces the number of hours of instruction required to obtain a hairdresser's and cosmetician's license from fifteen hundred (1,500) to twelve hundred (1,200) hours.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **194** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0194.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cote — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-01** 02/01/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Labor `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-02-24** 02/24/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2017)
- **2017-03-01** 03/01/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2017)
- **2017-06-13** 06/13/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-14** 06/14/2017 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b155fbbe-3b2a-494f-8cdc-48a3796cdec8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).