PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirements for recertification of instructor license. (1) The holder of an expired instructor license may submit an application to reinstate that license to the board within two (2) years of the date the license expired. The application shall be on a form supplied by the board and shall be accompanied by the instructor license renewal fee plus the late fee and proof of having attended an instructor training seminar or workshop within two (2) years of the date of application which has been sponsored by a university, a Missouri vocational association or bona fide state cosmetology association specifically approved by the board and other information as the board may require.

1. (2) Any person who has allowed his/her instructor license to expire for a period of more than two (2) years may submit a Re- Examination Notification Form to the board to reinstate that license through examination. The examination shall consist of the written and oral portions. The application shall be properly completed on a form supplied by the board and shall be accompanied by:

   1. (A) The examination fee, instructor license renewal fee and late fee;
   2. (B) Proof of his/her attendance within two

2. (2) years of the date of application at a teacher training seminar or workshop sponsored by a university, a Missouri vocational association or bona fide state cosmetology association specifically approved by the board;

   1. (C) Proof of having completed at least a four (4) year high school course of study or the equivalent as determined by the Missouri State Board of Education (high school diploma or general educational development

3. (GED) certificate); and

   1. (D) Proof of having completed six hundred
4. (600) hours of instructor training as set forth in 20 CSR 2085-12.090(3) and (4).

AUTHORITY: sections 329.025.1, 329.085.3, 329.085.6 and 329.120, RSMo Supp. 2007.* Original rule filed Aug. 1, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008.

*Original authority: 329.025, RSMo 2005; 329.085, RSMo 1989, amended 1995, 1997, 2001; and 329.120, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1947, 1959, 1979, 1981, 1995, 2005.