Bill Text: HI HB611 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Tanning Facilities; Minors; Penalties

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Carroll, Har, Oshiro, Takumi excused (4). [HB611 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB611-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  52

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 611

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 611 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TANNING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make it unlawful for tanning facilities to allow minors to use tanning equipment. 

 

Specifically, this measure:

 

(1)  Prohibits a tanning facility or operator from allowing a person under age eighteen from using tanning equipment;

 

(2)  Authorizes the Department of Health to impose fines on persons who are in violation;

 

(3)  Provides an exemption for:  equipment that emits ultraviolet radiation that is used by a licensed physician in the practice of medicine; or tanning equipment that is owned by a person for noncommercial personal use; and

    

(4)  Requires tanning facilities to post a notice of the prohibition and the health risks associated with tanning.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Osteopathic Association, American Osteopathic College of Dermatology, and Hawaii Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.  The Department of Health supported the intent of the measure.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by one concerned individual.  Written comments on this measure were submitted by one concerned individual.

 

Your Committee finds that suntanning in general increases the risks of sunburn, skin cancer, retinal damage, and other serious health conditions and that tanning with artificial ultraviolet light magnifies these risks even further.  Young people are at a heightened risk for developing skin cancer from indoor tanning.  Despite the increased risk of skin cancer, including melanoma, increasing numbers of teenagers use tanning facilities.  In the several states that have restricted minors' access to tanning equipment, skin cancer rates have decreased or remained stable.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that prohibiting the use of commercial tanning equipment by persons under age eighteen will protect the health, safety, and welfare of young people in Hawaii and promote the responsible use of tanning equipment.

 

     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. 611 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair