Cosmetology Board may be abolished

Also in budget hearings yesterday at the Capitol, the panel recommended that the Cosmetology Board of Arkansas be disbanded and merged with the Health Department. The board has been plagued with problems since I was elected to the legislature (and long before that). Its proposed budget of $764K for fiscal 2010 and $774K for 2011 is funded by license fees and cash funds generated by the assessment of penalties. The board employs 10. Here's more from today's Democrat-Gazette.