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HB 5684

AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Karen Alzate and 7 co-sponsors

Expands estheticians’ scope to include dermaplaning, microdermabrasion, chemical peels, light therapies, threading, brow/lash services, and related practices with training, safety,

06/24/2025 Signed by Governor
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Bill Summary · HB 5684

Summary — HB 5684 (PA 160 of 2024)

Status: Enacted as Public Act 160 of 2024 (filed with Secretary of State 12/03/2024). Articles amended: secs. 1201 & 1210 of 1980 PA 299 (MCL 339.1201 & 339.1210). Tie‑barred with HB 5683 (enacted as PA 159 of 2024).

Purpose / Intent

Modernize and expand the statutorily permitted scope of “skin care services” that licensed estheticians and cosmetologists may perform, to reflect technological advances and practices commonly allowed in many other states, while adding some safety and training requirements.

Key provisions

  • Expands the statutory definition of “skin care services” to expressly allow (among other services):
    • Exfoliation of dead skin cells / the stratum corneum (including use of products, chemicals, mechanical devices, electrical services, or Class 1 medical devices).
    • Dermaplaning.
    • Microdermabrasion and nonmedical‑grade hydrodermabrasion (with a training/documentation requirement for individuals licensed before the bill’s effective date).
    • Application of nonmedical‑grade chemical peels.
    • High‑frequency treatments (defined as treatments using electrical current ≥ 5 MHz).
    • Eyebrow services including lamination and eyebrow tinting (tint products limited to those that do not last more than six weeks).
    • Eyelash services, including extensions and tinting.
    • Facial cupping.
    • Use of noninvasive light therapies as part of cleansing/stimulation (subject to restrictions; see below).
    • Threading added to allowed hair‑removal techniques; spray tanning equipment expressly not treated as banned tanning equipment.
  • Light therapy restriction: estheticians/cosmetologists may only use FDA‑approved, noninvasive light therapies that are intended not to penetrate an individual’s layers of living skin.
  • Device definitions: “Class 1 medical device” defined (low‑risk aesthetic devices such as LED therapy, galvanic current within specified milliampere and duration limits, microcurrent that does not cause visible contractions).
  • Medical waste: requires compliance with Part 138 (medical waste registration, written management plan, containment/decontamination/disposal requirements).
  • Pre‑existing licensees: individuals licensed before the bill’s effective date cannot perform microdermabrasion/nonmedical hydrodermabrasion unless they have documented training (the bill includes other grandfathering/training provisions).
  • Delegation and physician supervision: does not prohibit performance of delegated skin‑care tasks performed under physician delegation where allowed by the Public Health Code.
  • Rulemaking: directs the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) to promulgate implementing rules under the Administrative Procedures Act within 18 months after the bill’s effective date.

Who is affected

  • Primary: licensed estheticians and cosmetologists, cosmetology apprentices, cosmetology schools, and cosmetology establishments (including mobile salons and cosmetology suites).
  • Secondary: LARA (rulemaking and enforcement), physicians (in delegation/supervision roles), and entities managing medical waste disposal.
  • Public consumers will be affected through expanded service availability and through regulation of devices/practices and medical waste handling.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • HB 5684 passed both chambers (House and Senate) with a Senate substitute (S‑2); approved by the Governor 12/03/2024 and assigned PA 160 of 2024.
  • Effective date: “Sine die” specification in the Public Act (described as 91st day after final adjournment of the 2024 Regular Session in the enrolled act). LARA must issue implementing rules within 18 months after the act’s effective date.
  • HB 5684 was tie‑barred to HB 5683 (which addresses medical exfoliation and limits on titles/supervision); both bills were enacted.

Fiscal impact

  • Nonpartisan legislative analyses (House Fiscal Agency / Senate staff) concluded no fiscal impact for state or local government.

Issues noted in committee reports

  • Supporters: argue updates reflect safe, modern, commonly used practices and training.
  • Opponents: raise concern that some newly permitted services are medical or invasive in nature and may raise safety issues if not properly regulated or supervised.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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