Assembly Bill A10143

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring certain individuals to wait twenty-four hours before getting a face tattoo

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10143 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §468, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A5900

2019-A10143 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires individuals between eighteen and twenty-one years of age to wait a minimum of twenty-four hours after making a request for a face tattoo.

2019-A10143 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10143
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 12, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
   individuals to wait twenty-four hours before getting a face tattoo
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 468 to read as follows:
   § 468. FACE TATTOO; RESTRICTIONS. NO OWNER, OPERATOR OR EMPLOYEE OF  A
 TATTOO STUDIO SHALL PERMIT A TATTOO TO BE PLACED ON THE FACE OF A PERSON
 BETWEEN  EIGHTEEN  AND  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF AGE UNLESS SUCH PERSON HAS
 WAITED A MINIMUM OF TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AFTER MAKING SUCH TATTOO REQUEST.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15501-01-0

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