Im a tattoo Artist with 19+ years Experience. Our business was started by my grandfather in the 1920s, He tattooed for 60 years, Aprenticing and Passing it on to my father who tattooed for 35 years, who in turn apprenticed and passed it on to me and my sisters. Tattooing has been our family tradition and business for a VERY LONG TIME, we hope to teach our own children when they reach working age. Changing the way apprenticeships are done is extremely upsetting, and  DESTRUCTIVE  to our Family Traditions and also to this entire INDUSTRY.  You will flood a stable market with Sub-Par Artists which there isnt enough room for.  Youll create more PROBLEMS than solutions for yourselves and established artists.  Instead of making things harder on those of us who follow the rules, your agency needs to Focus on Indentifying and PENALIZING the BOOTLEGGERS who are tattooing dangerously, messing people up, not paying fees and not being taxed.  I suggest you enact some laws to deal with them and some sort of TIPLINE to help catch and punish the ones that you cant find blatantly and obviously posting on social media.  Please Take these words into deep consideration. Thank you for your time.