tanning beds

The Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division said the state would not be able to meet the responsibilities of the Radiation Protection Services without a significant fee increase for X-rays and tanning beds, but the division’s proposal has run into resistance from Sen. Chip Shields who would like the state to seek more input from businesses hit with the fee hike.

April 22, 2013 — The Senate voted 17-11 on Monday to pass a less restrictive version of a teenage tanning salon ban than the one that passed the House overwhelmingly, prohibiting the practice for children under 17 without a doctor’s note.

Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham, favors limiting the ban to 17, over the objections of the Knight Cancer Institute that 17-year-olds are most at-risk of developing melanoma from tanning beds

Oregon has the highest death rate in the U.S. of melanoma among women, which has been linked to use of tanning beds