State cosmetology boards revise CE and fee rules without notice. This page is the running log of regulation changes CEFinder has caught and applied to the affected state pages. 6 changes tracked since launch. Each entry cites the primary source and links back to the full state page. Newest first.
Why this page exists
State boards do not publish a unified "change feed" you can subscribe to. CEFinder monitors each state's administrative code section on a schedule and updates the affected state page within 7 days of any change we detect. This page is the public record of those updates. It doubles as a check on our work: every change here is paired with the citation a reader can verify against the state's official code.
Recent changes
Maryland: Maryland added a 6-hour CE requirement for cosmetologists, estheticians, and nail technicians.
Effective January 1, 2026, Maryland began requiring 6 hours of board-approved continuing education before license renewal. Approved providers began offering courses on June 1, 2024 to give licensees a runway. CEFinder updated the Maryland state page and the homepage CE-required count (14 to 15 jurisdictions) the day the rule took effect.
What it means for licensees: Maryland licensees renewing after January 1 2026 must complete 6 CE hours.
The Virginia Board for Barbers and Cosmetology amended 18VAC41-70 effective December 1, 2025 to raise the biennial cosmetology renewal fee from 105 dollars to 120 dollars. CEFinder updated the Virginia state page fee figure on the day the amendment took effect.
What it means for licensees: Virginia licensees renewing after December 1 2025 owe 15 dollars more per cycle.
Effective July 1, 2025, Oregon Health Licensing Office shifted regular cosmetology, esthetician, nail-technologist, and barber renewals to annual bloodborne-pathogens (BBP) training only. The certified advanced esthetician CE rule (5 hours per year under OAR 819-025-0020) remained in force. CEFinder reclassified Oregon's headline CE figure to zero and added the BBP annual-training note to the state page.
What it means for licensees: Oregon licensees no longer need traditional CE hours, just one annual BBP class.
Kentucky: Kentucky repealed both of its cosmetology continuing-education regulations.
Effective: 2025-06-15 | Citation: 201 KAR 12:200 (repealed), 201 KAR 12:210 (repealed) | Primary source
Kentucky Administrative Regulation Title 201, Chapter 12, sections 200 (Requirements for continuing education for renewal of license) and 210 (Requirements for continuing education; active and inactive license and temporary waiver of requirements) were both repealed with no replacement regulation. Renewal remains annual under 201 KAR 12:030. CEFinder reclassified Kentucky as a no-CE jurisdiction.
What it means for licensees: Kentucky cosmetologists, estheticians, nail technicians, and instructors no longer need any CE for renewal.
Florida: Florida exempted 10-plus-year licensees in good standing from CE under SB 382.
Effective: 2024-07-01 | Citation: Florida Senate Bill 382 (2024 Session); Rule 61G5-32.001 (still in force for non-exempt) | Primary source
Senate Bill 382, signed in May 2024, took effect July 1, 2024 and exempts Florida cosmetologists with 10 or more years of licensure and no disciplinary actions from the 10-hour biennial CE requirement. The 10-hour rule under 61G5-32.001 remains for everyone else. CEFinder annotated the Florida state page with the exemption and the SB 382 citation.
What it means for licensees: Long-tenured Florida licensees with clean records can skip CE entirely.
Rhode Island Department of Health updated its license-renewal fee schedule, dropping the two-year cosmetology renewal fee from 30 dollars to 25 dollars. CE remains not required. CEFinder updated the fee figure on the Rhode Island state page within the 7-day SLA.
What it means for licensees: Rhode Island licensees pay 5 dollars less per cycle. No CE change.
Scheduled re-fetch. Each state's source URL is re-checked on a regular cadence. When the page content changes, a human reads the new text against our stored CE figures.
Reader reports. The report a discrepancy form routes every report to a human. Many of the entries above started as a reader noticing the state's published rule no longer matched our page.
State board notices. Some boards (Maryland and Oregon, recently) post advisory notices when a rule takes effect. We treat those as a trigger to re-read the underlying administrative code.
Methodology
Every change above had to clear the same bar: the primary administrative code or statute had to show the change in force, not a third-party blog or a course provider site. When the primary source is bot-blocked or behind a portal, we cite the fallback source in the verification notes and re-check the primary on a schedule.
The full methodology and the maintainer's background live on the about page.