STAND. COM. REP. NO.225
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 124
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 124 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TATTOOS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Require minors to inform tattoo artists of their minority status and provide parental consent for application of any permanent tattoos; and
(2) Require tattoo artists to notify all prospective clients of the need for parental consent if the client is a minor and to obtain such written parental consent if the client is a minor.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Health and a concerned parent.
Your Committee recognizes that tattooing is considered
a form of art and that many people receive permanent tattoos each year. However, persons under the age of 18 should not be tattooed without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian. Nonetheless, many adolescents receive tattoos without a parent's knowledge or consent. Furthermore, your Committee feels that parents should be involved in any decision to permanently mark their children's bodies.
After careful consideration, your Committee, feeling that parental involvement in the permanent marking of their minor child's body was paramount, amended the measure by requiring minors seeking application of a permanent tattoo to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian or to provide parental consent via notarized authorization identifying the design to be used and part of the body to which the design is to be applied.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 124, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 124, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |