Education of student.
Ark. Code Ann. § 17-26-707
in effect(a) A sponsor educator shall be a registered sponsor educator at an institution licensed by the Department of Health.
(b) The department shall develop standards to determine:
(1) The maximum number of students in an institution at one (1) time; and
(2) The length of the program in hours and across a range of months.
(c)(1)(A) During the education of the student in permanent cosmetics, each student shall complete not less than four hundred (400) clock hours of supervised permanent cosmetics education, including not less than one hundred fifty (150) hours of supervised on-site work and not less than two hundred (200) hours of classroom instruction, in a period not less than six (6) months or more than twenty-four (24) months in an establishment licensed under § 17-26-709.
(B) During the education of a student in semi-permanent cosmetics, each student shall complete not less than two hundred (200) clock hours of supervised semipermanent cosmetics, including not less than one hundred (100) hours of supervised on-site work and not less than fifty (50) hours of classroom instruction, in a period not less than six (6) months or more than twenty-four (24) months in an establishment licensed under § 17-26-709.
(C) Additional modalities of paramedical tattooing may be added by completing not less than sixteen (16) clock hours of technical and procedural training in each of the fields of paramedical tattooing in which the student is to be licensed.
(D) A student studying multiple fields of permanent cosmetics and semipermanent cosmetics at the same time shall complete a total of six hundred (600) clock hours of all fields in not less than six (6) months or more than twenty-four (24) months.
(2)(A) The sponsor educator shall maintain a training log of the clock hours completed by the student on forms approved by the board.
(B) The training log shall include without limitation a record of:
(i) Hours of both theory and practical education;
(ii) The procedures observed and completed;
(iii) A list of resources used for training;
(iv) The name, address, phone number, email address, and date of birth of the client on whom the procedure is performed;
(v) The date of the procedure;
(vi) The name, phone number, and signature of the student; and
(vii) The name and signature of the sponsor educator and one (1) administrative member of the institution.
(C) The student shall keep available for inspection a bound record book that is separate from the record book of another artist or artist in training.
(D) The completed training log shall be submitted to the board at the time of the practical examination under § 17-26-709.
(3) In order to graduate from an institution, a student shall complete three (3) procedures in each area of the face by using the equipment.
(d)(1) During the education of an artist to become a sponsor educator, each artist shall complete not less than six hundred (600) clock hours of a sponsor educator training program, including not less than one hundred (100) hours of teaching observation, two hundred (200) hours of theory, one hundred fifty (150) hours of procedure observation, and one hundred fifty (150) hours of practice teaching.
(2) A person shall not identify as a sponsor educator until licensed or certified under this subchapter.
(3) A licensure or certification of a sponsor educator is only valid at the institution in which the licensure or certification is received.
(4) A sponsor educator may offer training only in the area in which the sponsor educator holds a current license from the department.
(e) The department shall adopt a minimum curriculum for each area of permanent cosmetics and semipermanent cosmetics training that shall be followed by all sponsor educators, students, and institutions.
Source: Arkansas General Assembly, Acts of 2021-2026 (arkleg.state.ar.us)URL: https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=270.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023RFetched: 11/8/2026