The answer is the National Association of Barber Boards of America. NABBA is the real organization that connects state licensing boards, including Texas's.
It's not a beauty-board group, a general business association, or an alliance of shop owners — NABBA specifically ties individual state barber boards together around shared licensing standards, which is part of what makes license reciprocity between states possible.
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