Legislative Updates for Minnesota

Minnesota Board of Cosmetology

1000 University Ave., Suite 100
St. Paul, MN 55104

Phone: 651-201-2742 | Fax: 612-617-2601 | Website: mn.gov/boards/cosmetology/ | Email: cosmetology@state.mn.us
Training hours required from a licensed esthetics school/program: 600

Minnesota COVID-19 Update: Permission to Practice June 1, 2020

Per section 7.(c).(vii) on page 8 of Executive Order 20-63 (https://mn.gov/governor/assets/EO%2020-63%20Final_tcm1055-433759.pdf) issued by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on May 27, 2020, businesses providing personal care services, including massage therapy establishments, spas, salons, nail salons, cosmetology salons, esthetician salons, advanced practice esthetician salons, eyelash salons, and barbershops, may resume operations June 1, 2020.

Minnesota COVID-19 Update: Order Extension through May 17

There have been many changes in the massage therapy, esthetics, and cosmetology professions and communities in response to COVID-19 (coronavirus). ABMP, ASCP, AHP, and ANP have summarized below how COVID-19 has impacted Minnesota, from executive orders affecting business closures, to reopening protocols modifying practice procedures, to financial programs developed to aid the unemployed.

Prohibition of Practice

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