Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0404

2E Modifying certain provisions under the clean indoor air act; prohibiting
smoking in places of employment and in public transportation vehicles, defining
smoking, places of employment and public transportation and modifying the
definition of public place; requiring family home or group family day care
providers to disclose to parents or guardians of children cared for on the
premises of the existence of smoking on the premises outside the hours of
operation; expanding the prohibition on smoking in health care facilities to
licensed residential facilities for children and modifying the prohibition on
smoking in nursing and boarding care homes; authorizing smoking in public
transportation vehicles used for personal purposes by the driver, passengers
disclosure requirement; limiting the smoking in outdoor seating areas of
restaurants or bars; strengthening the responsibility of proprietors in charge
of public places to prevent smoking; authorizing smoking in traditional native
American ceremonies; specifically excluding private homes, residences and
automobiles and hotel or motel rooms from the smoking prohibitions; authorizing
the sampling of tobacco products in tobacco products shops before purchase,
defining tobacco products shop; enumerating violations of the prohibitions,
providing an affirmative defense to the charge of failing to prohibit smoking
and prohibiting retaliatory actions against violation reporters or against
employees, employment applicants or customers exercising the right to a smoke
free environment; authorizing more stringent city or county regulations to
protect individuals from second hand smoke; repealing the provision authorizing
the designation of smoking areas in public places
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