Summary Draft for Tattoo Public Safety Bill 2012

The United States is experiencing an increasing threat against it National Public Health, individuals performing tattooing without licensing are causing the rise of the public health risk through disease transmission from Tattooing applications. The tattooing demand has been increasing annually while the supply of ready available cash for most households has significantly declining every since the US economic crises. A significantly number of US consumers are now receiving tattoo applications from unlicensed individuals performing unsanitary Tattoo applications a much lower cost.

REGULATIONS: There is a lack of regulations in place for individuals choosing to provide tattooing services, presently they operate outside of the present codes, and laws, this gap is significantly diluting the bear of protection that has been afforded to the nations public through the enactment of regulations codes and for regulating the tattoo profession and business operations within our Nation.

UNLICENSED TATTOO ARTIST: there has been huge increasing in the threat against the Nation Public Health from tattoo procedures being preformed by Unlicensed Individuals acting as tattoo artist It is alarming that in every city and state in the United States of America. the actions of these individuals are putting the general public risk, by performing 1000's of life threatening tattoo applications daily across the US by unqualified individuals in unsanitary conditions.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASE TRANMITSITION; Transmissible by direct or indirect contact; communicable: a contagious disease
can be transmitted from unsanitary tattoo procedures. Presently statistic shows that tattoo procedures are being sought out by 16 to 25 age groups which presently suffer a high degree of jobless rate and are most vulnerable to making life threatening choices, with tattooing applications being performed on lower income levels and younger consumer groups, the same groups whom are already at a greater health risk for disease transmitting and poor medical care it not surprising that we haven’t had an epidemic. Further more there is an increasing level of procedures being performed by untrained and unlicensed individuals at all social levels. This problem presently is the single largest threat to public health other then sex transmissible disease with the highest penitential to cause a nation wide spread of diseases in our nation.

There has been a significant rise in tattoo removal from blotched tattooing from UNLICENSED INDIVIDUALS ACTING AS tattoo artist as well as a rise in infections caused from the use of non professional standard and products.

REGULATION: Presently most states regulate Licensed Tattoo Artist and a Tattoo Business Operations. They are regulated by and through Federal OSHA, State and City government agency's and municipalities using laws, codes and regulations to govern and regulate them, these laws and codes were adopted in order to provide the highest standard of protection for the public's over-all safety while receiving a tattoo procedure.

NO LAWS, CODES, AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING UNLICENSED INDIVIDUALS PERFORMING TATTOOS IN MOST STATES: Any individual choosing to apply tattoos on the public can do so with impunity, if an individual is arrested it is only after a complaint of tattooing Minors has been lodged with the police department, therein the only law in most states that make application of tattooing illegal is on minors.

PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONAL CRIME LAWS: are laws, codes and regulations that make it a crime to do Dentistry, Acupuncture, or any other evasive procedural applications that would normally requiring a trained licensed practitioner on any humans in all United States.

These laws are in place to protect the individual Public from the bad judgment of allowing unlicensed individuals to do any procedure that requires a high degree of skill and training as well as be a high risk to the Publics Health.

EVASIVE MEDICAL TYPE OF PROCEDURE: Tattooing is regulated as an professional occupation because the application of tattooing qualifies as a evasive medical procedure requiring a high degree of skill and training that must be done in a Sanitary Environment under Federal OSHA guild line using sterilized equipment as well as approved equipment and products in a Licensed facility.

LEGISLATIVE BILLS: There must be Bills drafted and submitted before Congress and the State governments for enactment and the passing laws, codes and regulations at the State and the Federally Government level that empowers all concerned city and state agencies and municipalities, Courts, Police, Health department, OSHA to take legal actions and sanctions against individuals operating or soliciting the act of tattooing as a unlicensed individual tattooing or as a unlicensed tattoo studio or parlor provide tattoo services. Furthermore even stricter legal sanctions against Impersonating a Licensed Tattoo Artist or Tattoo Studio Facility.

POWER OF THE STATE AND CITY: The State and City Agency's & Police Department must to be equipped with the power to seek out and arrest and charge any individual operating or soliciting services as a tattoo business and a tattoo artist with out a license with a crime for committing actions against the public health interest and posing a significant threat to the public health. Further more the state courts must be so empowered to levy fines and jail incarceration for crimes against the city community regulations and health laws.

1st offense; committed by an unlicensed tattoo artist is a misdemeanor with up to $500 and/or a year in jail.

2nd.offense; gross misdemeanor with up to $1,000 and/or a two year's in jail.

3rd.Offense: committed by an unlicensed tattoo artist a felony with up to $5,000 and/or a 1 to 3
year's in prison.

4th. Offense; committed by an unlicensed tattoo artist a felony with up to $10,000 and/or a 3 to 5
year's in prison.

Any offense; committed by an unlicensed tattoo artist that causes any personal injury is a felony with up to $15,000 and/or a 2 to 10 year's in prison.

Any offense committed by an unlicensed tattoo artist that is against a minor under the age of 13 is Felony with up to $25,000 and/or a to 5 to live in prison.

EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES REGULATIONS: The Federal Governmental need to in act regulations to Require Tattooing Suppliers to sell related Tattoo equipment and products only to Licensed Professional Tattoo Artist and Facilities, additionally the sale and import of ink and other such products and equipment requiring training used to be used or sold in the United states needs to be regulated.

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This is only the developmental stage pages were everyone could come together as professionals and formulate an introductory finished summary outline that can be presented to their state legislator.

Each state will need a legislator who is willing to sponsor it, and then the next step is to frame the idea in suitable legislative form and language for introduction of a bill.
The drafting of statutes is an art that requires great skill, knowledge, and experience,
most bills are drafted by the Legislative Council Service.

Remember that each state has different needs for introducing the Bill, the joint resolution, the resolution, the joint memorial and the memorial.

I am seeking Liaison for each state who would work to find out what their state needs are and seek a Legislator sponsor or Lobbyist for the Bill.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Donating Blood

I found the conversation on BME NEWS by Rob about the deferral period post-tattooing for donating blood very interesting in light of my resent efforts to develop a Bill to submit to each states legislative branch of government to introduce laws to be enacted to reduce the amount of individuals provide underground tattoo and piercing applications.

Fact:  Aids and even Heb C came into view it had already been widely spread through blood transfusions for many many years because the markers had not been develop to find the disease in blood, unforchantly like many new disease it is only discovered after there is lots of damage to the individuals health or they die and after it has been widely spread through blood transfusions

Fact: The screening for virus HEP-C wasn't  introduced until 1991 when it is believed the signs and symptoms had been around since 1950's.

Devil's Advocate: I am going to play devil's advocate here for a moment, what if unforchantly your blood infected a baby or child, or a mother, or anyone else for that matter, would you be all right with that and just shrug it off and say I had good intentions, I read a Fortune Cookie once it said "The Road to Hell Is Paved  with Good Intentions'

Fact: Patient groups are calling for all those who had a blood transfusion or received treatment derived from donated blood before 1991 to go get tested for disease.

True Case: : Widespread shock in 2004 when Dame Anita Roddick announced she had hepatitis C, she caught the virus, which destroyed her liver, after a hospital blood transfusion in 1974.

Sadly Dame Anita Roddick  in need of the blood to save her life while giving birth had lived with hep C for more than 30 years before discovering she had it, by which time she was suffering from cirrhosis (severe scarring) of the liver.

She died three years later aged 64 of a brain haemorrhage, a rare complication of the disease.

She did not take the inherent risk associated with receiving a tattoo or other known causes, yet she became infected through what was to be a lifesaving blood transfusion and lived a live of illness and died as a result of complications caused from Heb C.

Fact: No one who has had a Blood transfusion is allowed EVER to Donate Blood

Fact: Up to 4 million Americans are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus.

Fact: The hepatitis B virus, or HBV, can still be infectious for up to a week outside the body.

Fact: The hepatitis C virus, or HCV, can live outside the body for up to 4 days.

Fact: Research from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases showed that out of 3,871 people studied (half with hepatitis C and half without), there was a significant association between having one or more tattoos and having hepatitis C. In short, the study found that people with hepatitis C were about three times more likely to have tattoos.

Reality: Cross Contamination transfer of  HEP-C can happen very easily if strict guild-lines are not followed, OSHA requires all tattoo artist to be trained in there guild-line.

Scenario: The customer before you has HEP-C and your artist has blood on the gloves worn during the applying of his tattoo, he touches anything and transfers blood fluids onto the item, then he inadvertently uses the same item while tattooing you, power supply knob, spray bottle, tattoo machine, ink bottle,  then he touches your skin or the tattoo needle and tattoos microbes, the bacteria  viruses right into your body, hence you have now been infected, but nothing happens tell 20 years later when you discover your going to die from live damage or any of the 12 other side effect caused by HEP-C.

Conclusion: I mean you new the risk when you got the tattoo you signed the waver with warnings about possible infections, and not be able to give blood, so you now why complain?, why want to even take the slightest risk of possibly causing harm to someone because of your personal choices?

Safe: Simply fact if you have received your tattoo in a state or city that strictly regulates tattooing your going to have a very reduced chance of contracting HEB-C or HEB-B from a tattoo if the tattoo artist actually follows all the strict safety procedures.  But lets be on the safe side, lets not risk someone life on a opinion, lets be safe and let the individuals who are in the business of blood for life saving make the expert decisions on when to adopt a change to waiting periods.

Professional Opinion: I know the risk I have been tattooing for over 25 yrs professionally and have known both artist to die from HEP-C, and other individuals too.

Today: more then ever the public is receiving tattoos from unlicensed, untrained, non-certified individuals, in non-sanitary conditions and in uncontrollable environments.

Questions: How many will report that the tattoos were not done professional?
                     How many people do you know today who have home made tattoos?
                     How many people do you know  say a friend or a cousin doing tattoos out there house?
                     How many many times have you heard about a tattoo guy at a house party?

Answer: probably lot if your age 16 to 35 and have tattoos.

Time for Action: I am personally trying to do something to help protect our future generations,  the public's health from making bad choices and reduce the transition of Disease from underground tattooing individuals.

Question:   would you go to someone house to have a your teeth removed or get acupuncture treatments,  probably not, because you would be afraid of something going wrong and for good reason.

Law: It is against the law and public health regulations to perform like a doc, nurse, any type of practitioner unless you have been licensed or have certification do any type of medical procedure.

Definition: Tattooing is a minimally invasive medical procedure is defined by the medical community, as one that is carried out by entering the body through the skin.

Presently: there are no laws, regulations, or codes in place to protect our community health from disease transmitting through underground tattooing individuals.

Social Perception: if it's was wrong or that risky for you would the government make it illegal, not until a lot of people die or we take action.

Risk: Your teenager, brother, sister or even mother maybe unaware of the high risk of contagiousness disease from improper tattooing procedures, and go ahead and get a tattoo while at someones house party and spends the remainder of there life fighting for their life because of it.

Protect: Help make our community aware and our community  future health a government priority support the "Tattooing Public Safety Bill 2012 http://stop-tattoo-scratcher.blogspot.com/

Regards: Randy Holder

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