Are Tattoos In Florida Regulated

Tattoo businesses, artists face up possible new regulations

Submitted photo Rep. Rosemary Chocolate-brown, R-Monroe/Pike, speaks during a budget hearing earlier this year.

Tattoo artists could exist regulated past the country Health Department under a beak introduced recently in the state House of Representatives.

Pennsylvania is one of a scattering of states that have no laws regulating tattoo shopss. Business firm Bill 1975 is sponsored past Rep. Rosemary Brown, R-Monroe/Expressway, and has been referred to the Professional Licensure Commission. It would require those creating tattoos to take a tattoo artist license or be registered as a guest tattoo artist.

"For background, the possessor of a tattoo establishment approached me a few years ago inquiring why Pennsylvania did not license or inspect this manufacture," Brown wrote in her legislative memorandum. "I have to admit, I as well was surprised to observe out that at that place was no oversight since a tattoo process breaks and opens the skin with needles, creating a prime number environment for blood-borne pathogen infections. If sanitary measures are not followed, the opportunity for a serious infection are possible. This owner had an establishment both in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and noted the strong differences for consumer protections equally well as the high standards that helped create a respected and professional person industry for his career. His frustrations with fixing bad tattoos, seeing infections and hearing of tattooing occurring in unsanitary garages has confirmed why my legislation is necessary."

Dark-brown's beak would crave tattoo artists to be xviii years or older, complete an education course on claret-borne pathogens and communicable diseases, pass a Wellness Department-approved test with at least a 70% course and pay a yearly registration fee. Tattooing would as well be limited to tattoo establishments or temporary establishments licensed past the state.

Licenses for a tattoo establishment or a temporary establishment would exist no more than $250 a year. The initial license fee and license renewal would be no more than $150 a year while the fee for a guest tattoo artist would not be more than $45. It would cost $250 to reactivate an inactive tattoo business organization license and $150 to reactivate an inactive tattoo artist license. The legislation does not change the prohibition on tattoos for those under the historic period of 18 without consent of a parent or guardian.

At that place accept been tattoo regulation proposals introduced in the by, including some by Brown. Firm Neb 1975 takes a different approach, she said.

After working on this for several years and introducing several drafts, 1 which was voted on by the full House, I have found that the Florida model has 1 of the about straightforward statutes where they license and crave sanitation without being burdensome or too costly to the tattoo artists and manufacture," Brown wrote.

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