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SENATE BILL NO. 1001 – State veterans homes, smoking OK

SENATE BILL NO. 1001

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S1001.............................................................by GOEDDE
STATE VETERANS HOMES - SMOKING - Amends existing law to provide that Idaho
state veterans homes may permit smoking in designated areas under certain
conditions.
                                                                        
01/11    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/12    Rpt prt - to St Aff

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  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-eighth Legislature                   First Regular Session - 2005
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1001
                                                                        
                                         BY GOEDDE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO IDAHO STATE VETERANS HOMES; AMENDING SECTION 39-5503, IDAHO  CODE,
  3        TO  PROVIDE  THAT  IDAHO STATE VETERANS HOMES MAY PERMIT SMOKING IN DESIG-
  4        NATED AREAS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
                                                                        
  5    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  6        SECTION 1.  That Section 39-5503, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
  7    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  8        39-5503.  PROHIBITIONS  -- EXCEPTIONS. (1) No person shall smoke in a pub-
  9    lic place, publicly-owned building or office, or at a public  meeting,  except
 10    in  the  following which may contain smoking areas or be designated as smoking
 11    areas in their entirety:
 12        (a)  Bars;
 13        (b)  Retail businesses primarily engaged in the sale of tobacco or tobacco
 14        products;
 15        (c)  Bowling alleys;
 16        (d)  Buildings owned and operated by social, fraternal, or religious orga-
 17        nizations when used by the membership of the organization, their guests or
 18        families, or any facility that is rented or leased for  private  functions
 19        from which the public is excluded and for which arrangements are under the
 20        control of the sponsor of the function;
 21        (e)  Guest  rooms in hotels, motels, bed and breakfast lodging facilities,
 22        and other similar lodging facilities, designated by the person or  persons
 23        having  management  authority  over  such  public lodging establishment as
 24        rooms in which smoking may be permitted;
 25        (f)  Theatrical production sites, if smoking is an integral  part  of  the
 26        story in the theatrical production;
 27        (g)  Areas  of owner-operated businesses, with no employees other than the
 28        owner-operators, that are not commonly open to the public;
 29        (h)  Any office or business, other than  child  care  facilities,  located
 30        within  the  proprietor's  private home when all such offices and/or busi-
 31        nesses occupy less than fifty percent (50%) of the total area  within  the
 32        private home; and
 33        (i)  Idaho  state  veterans homes, established pursuant to section 66-901,
 34        Idaho Code, that permit smoking in designated areas, provided that  physi-
 35        cal  barriers and ventilation systems are used to reduce smoke in adjacent
 36        nonsmoking areas; and
 37        (j)  A designated employee breakroom established by a small business owner
 38        employing five (5) or fewer employees, provided that all of the  following
 39        conditions are met:
 40             (i)   The breakroom is not accessible to minors;
 41             (ii)  The  breakroom is separated from other parts of the building by
 42             a floor to ceiling partition;
 43             (iii) The breakroom is not the sole means of entrance or exit to  the
                                                                        
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  1             establishment  or  its  restrooms  and is located in an area where no
  2             employee is required to enter as part of the employee's work  respon-
  3             sibilities.  For purposes of this paragraph, the term "work responsi-
  4             bilities" does not include custodial or maintenance work performed in
  5             a breakroom when it is unoccupied; and
  6             (iv)  "Warning: Smoking Permitted" signs are  prominently  posted  in
  7             the  smoking   breakroom and properly maintained by the employer. The
  8             letters on such signs shall be at least one (1) inch in height.
  9        (2)  This section shall not be construed to require employers  to  provide
 10    reasonable  accommodation  to smokers, or to provide breakrooms for smokers or
 11    nonsmokers.
 12        (3)  Nothing in this section shall prohibit an employer  from  prohibiting
 13    smoking in an enclosed place of employment.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                            RS 14389

Occupants of Veteran's Homes were denied smoking privileges as a
result of passage of the Clean Indoor Air Act. This legislation
will allow smoking in areas within said homes that have suitable
equipment to minimize impact on the balance of the facility.


                          FISCAL IMPACT

None. Needed equipment already exists in Veteran's Homes









Contact
Name: Sen. John Goedde                                        
Phone: 332-1330 

Name: Rep. Dick Harwood
Phone: 332-1210


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE             Bill No. S 1001     

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