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A license for hair braiding?

Should Utahns have to obtain a state license to do landscape architecture, paint nails or braid hair? The state currently requires professionals in these fields, and many others, to obtain a license to work here legally. Some state legislators would like to do away with these rules. Here's the script for the video: STAND UP: Did you know you have to get a professional license to braid hair or install burglar alarms? And that you must get 2000 hours in training for a license to cut hair? Representative Holly Richardson explains how professional licensing by the state of Utah has gone too far. REPRESENTATIVE HOLLY RICHARDSON: "Some of the licenses might be necessary, but parts of them certainly go broader than they need to. So requiring a license to braid hair, for example, or even to do simple eyelash extensions, those are some of the things that have ended up being licensed in the state of Utah. The reality is a license does not increase safety; it does not increase competence; all it does is show you were able to pass a test somewhere at sometime." VOICE-OVER: The director of Cameo College of Essential Beauty and the legislative chair for Utah Cosmetology, Brenda Scharman, says the education required for a beauty license is vital for the public's safety. BRENDA SCHARMAN: "I think I'll use the analogy of a doctor. Does it take eight years to learn how to treat a common cold? Does a dentist have to take six or eight years of education to learn how to clean teeth, no? It's ...

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