Bill Text: NY A03455 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to study the long-term safety of tattoo ink and issue a report making recommendations for tattoo ink labeling.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A03455 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03455-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3455

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT directing the department of health to study the long-term  safety
          of tattoo ink and issue a report making recommendations for tattoo ink
          labeling; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
          tion thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The department of health shall conduct a study on the long-
     2  term safety of tattoo ink.  Such study shall include, but not be limited
     3  to:
     4    (a) ingredients in various types of  tattoo  inks  and  the  long-term
     5  health risks and potential side effects of exposure to such ingredients;
     6  and
     7    (b)  long-term health risks and potential side effects of tattoos made
     8  with various types of tattoo ink.
     9    § 2. No later than one year after the effective date of this act,  the
    10  department  of  health  shall  deliver  a report which shall include any
    11  findings and analysis from the study conducted pursuant to  section  one
    12  of  this act to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and
    13  the speaker of the assembly. Such report shall also include  recommenda-
    14  tions  for  the  labeling  of tattoo inks and recommendations on changes
    15  which should be made to any laws, rules or regulations as  a  result  of
    16  such study.
    17    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    18  deemed repealed two years after it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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