Subject: Turf Battle Over Regulation of Franchises Intensifies 
Date: Published: 11/15/89 (46 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Enterprise -- State and Local Spotlight:
    Turf Battle Over Regulation of Franchises Intensifies
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    By Barbara Marsh and Timothy D. Schellhardt

    THE BATTLE BETWEEN the states and the feds over the future
 of franchising regulation heats up.
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    NATIONAL HEALTH CARE is gaining support in the heartland
 among business owners, many of them smaller.  Although two of
 three employers surveyed in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and
 Nebraska still oppose government intervention in health care,
 the gap is narrowing, reports Mercer Meidinger Hansen Inc., a
 benefits consulting firm.  Reasons:  A perceived failure to
 control health-care costs, which climbed 22% in the region
 last year, and the recent focus on the number of uninsured
 persons.
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    NEEDLING ISSUE:  Worried about the spread of AIDS,
 lawmakers in Rhode Island and Iowa tightened regulations on
 tattoo parlors.
    Similar measures have been introduced in Illinois, New
 Jersey and Utah.  Since the AIDS virus can be transmitted via
 blood, concern has grown that tattoo needles could transmit
 it.  AIDS experts consider that highly unlikely and say
 tattooing hasn't caused any AIDS cases.
    In Newport, R. I., a Navy town where tattoo parlors still
 flourish, state Sen. David Kerins sponsored his state's new
 law after learning parlors weren't being inspected.
    Tattooing of minors also is an emerging issue:  Iowa
 restricts the practice and a proposed New Jersey provision
 would outlaw it, reports Wayne Kessler, director of State Net
 of Sacramento, Calif., which tracks legislation.

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