Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to safety and sanitation criteria for tattooing establishments, and including effective date provisions
Topics:State governmentHealth care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 18, 2022
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Iowa Department of Public Health would create new safety and cleanliness rules for tattoo shops that serve food and drinks. These rules apply as long as the food and drink area is kept at least five feet away from where people get tattooed.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the Iowa department of public health to establish safety and sanitation criteria for tattooing establishments that allow a person to provide and consume food and beverages at a tattooing establishment so long as the food and beverages are separated from the area where tattooing services are practiced by a distance of at least five feet. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 7, 2022. On February 10, 2022 it recommended amendment and passage.
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