Senate File 2010 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2010 BY GREEN A BILL FOR An Act relating to safety and sanitation criteria for tattooing 1 establishments, and including effective date provisions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5361SS (4) 89 ss/rn
S.F. 2010 Section 1. Section 135.37, subsection 4, paragraph b, Code 1 2022, is amended to read as follows: 2 b. Establish minimum safety and sanitation criteria for 3 the operation of tattooing establishments. The criteria shall 4 allow a person to provide and consume food and beverages, 5 including intoxicating beverages, at a tattoo establishment so 6 long as food and beverages are provided and consumed at least 7 five feet from the area where tattooing services are practiced. 8 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 9 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 10 EXPLANATION 11 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 12 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 13 This bill requires the Iowa department of public health 14 to establish safety and sanitation criteria for tattooing 15 establishments that allow a person to provide and consume food 16 and beverages at a tattooing establishment so long as the food 17 and beverages are separated from the area where tattooing 18 services are practiced by a distance of at least five feet. 19 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 20 -1- LSB 5361SS (4) 89 ss/rn 1/ 1