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Mark your calendar:The Health Licensing Office (HLO) will be closed or have delayed openings on the following days:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025: Late opening at 10 a.m.
Thursday, December 25, 2025: Closed for Christmas
Friday, December 26, 2025: *Lobby closed to walk-ins
Thursday, January 1, 2026: Closed for New Year’s Day
Examinations will not be offered, and licenses will not be issued on these days.
*On December 26, the HLO will be closed to the public to address administrative tasks. Staff will be answering phones and emails; however, there will be no over-the-counter walk-in service or testing available that day.
Our Regular office hours are:Monday through Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Testing hours are:Monday through Friday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For examination and licensing questions, call (503) 378-8667. You can also email hlo.info@odhsoha.oregon.gov.
Many of your questions can be answered by consulting our website at www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/hlo.
Please note: The Health Licensing Office will be closed to the public on Monday, July 28, 2025, to address administrative tasks. There will be no over-the-counter walk-in service or testing available this day.
The Health Licensing Office (HLO) reminds all Oregon Certified Advanced Estheticians that they must enter into a collaborative agreement with a licensed health care professional before providing any services.
Per Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 676.655 and Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 819-030-0020, the purpose of this agreement is to ensure that a certified advanced esthetician has a licensed health care professional to whom they may refer clients.
See the Collaborative Agreement FAQ document for more details.
The Health Licensing Office (HLO), the Board of Cosmetology, and the Board of Certified Advanced Estheticians intended to file a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) with the Secretary of State for publication in the August 1, 2023, Oregon Bulletin, but time constraints did not allow HLO to do so.
In 2021, the Health Licensing Office (HLO) convened a Joint Esthetic and Advanced Esthetic Rules Advisory Committee (Joint RAC) to collaborate and recommend rule changes to the Board of Cosmetology (COS Board) and the Board of Certified Advanced Estheticians (CAE Board), including defining the term “device" within both the advanced esthetics and esthetics professions as required in HB 2970 (2021).
The Board of Cosmetology and Board of Certified Advanced Estheticians reconvened an Esthetics and Advanced Esthetics Joint Rules Advisory Committee (Joint RAC) which met on January 30, 2023, to continue discussion regarding the requirements of HB 2970 (2021) related to collaboratively defining the term “device" within both the esthetics and advanced esthetics professions.
Currently, the Joint RAC has meetings scheduled for February 27, 2023, and March 27, 2023. The Health Licensing Office (HLO) will be canceling the February 27, 2023, meeting due to other time sensitive obligations and to allow adequate time to develop and research information on devices. The HLO still intends to hold its March 27, 2023, meeting from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Further decisions will be made on scheduling additional RAC meetings following the March 27, 2023, meeting.
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