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HOUSE BILL NO. 121 – Bowling alley, no smoking

HOUSE BILL NO. 121

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H0121.................................................by HEALTH AND WELFARE
CLEAN INDOOR AIR ACT - Amends existing law relating to the Clean Indoor Air
Act to remove bowling alleys from the list of exceptions to the prohibition
on smoking in a public place.

02/07    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/08    Rpt prt - to St Aff
02/20    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/21    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/23    3rd rdg - PASSED - 48-17-5
      AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block, Bock,
      Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew, Crane,
      Durst, Edmunson, Eskridge, Henbest, Henderson, Jaquet, Killen, King,
      Kren, Labrador, Lake, LeFavour, Luker, Mathews, Pasley-Stuart,
      Patrick, Pence, Raybould, Ring, Ringo, Ruchti, Rusche, Sayler,
      Shepherd(2), Shirley, Shively, Smith(30), Snodgrass, Stevenson,
      Trail, Wills, Wood(27)
      NAYS -- Barrett, Bayer, Clark, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood, Marriott,
      McGeachin, Mortimer, Moyle, Nielsen, Nonini, Roberts, Schaefer,
      Shepherd(8), Thayn, Vander Woude
      Absent and excused -- Collins, Loertscher, Smith(24), Wood(35), Mr.
      Speaker
    Floor Sponsor - Ring
    Title apvd - to Senate
02/26    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Health/Wel
03/06    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/07    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/13    3rd rdg - PASSED - 31-4-0
      AYES -- Andreason, Bair, Bastian, Bilyeu, Burkett, Cameron, Coiner,
      Corder, Darrington, Davis, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde, Hammond, Heinrich,
      Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough, Langhorst, Little, Lodge, Malepeai,
      McGee, McKenzie, Richardson, Schroeder, Siddoway, Stegner, Stennett,
      Werk
      NAYS -- Broadsword, Fulcher, McKague, Pearce
      Absent and excused -- None
    Floor Sponsor - Hill
    Title apvd - to House
03/14    To enrol
03/15    Rpt enrol - Sp signed - Pres signed
03/16    To Governor
03/22    Governor VETOED
03/22    Held at Desk
03/28    House vote to override veto - PASSED - 57-13-0
      AYES -- Anderson, Bayer, Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block, Bock,
      Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew, Collins,
      Crane, Durst, Edmunson, Eskridge, Henbest, Henderson, Jaquet, Killen,
      King, Kren, Labrador, Lake, LeFavour(Herzfeld), Loertscher, Luker,
      Mathews, McGeachin, Mortimer, Moyle, Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence,
      Raybould, Ring, Ringo, Roberts, Ruchti, Rusche, Sayler, Shepherd(2),
      Shirley, Shively, Smith(30), Smith(24), Snodgrass, Stevenson, Trail,
      Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr. Speaker
      NAYS -- Andrus, Barrett, Clark, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood, Marriott,
      Nielsen, Nonini, Schaefer, Shepherd(8), Thayn, Vander Woude
      Absent and excused -- None
    To Senate
03/28    Senate vote to override veto - PASSED - 29-6-0
      AYES -- Andreason, Bair, Bastian, Bilyeu, Cameron, Coiner, Corder,
      Burkett, Darrington, Davis, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde, Hammond,
      Heinrich, Hill, Kelly, Keough, Langhorst, Little, Lodge, Malepeai,
      McGee, McKenzie, Schroeder, Siddoway, Stegner, Stennett,
      Werk(Douglas)
      NAYS -- Broadsword, Fulcher, Jorgenson, McKague, Pearce, Richardson
      Absent and excused -- None
    To House
    Veto OVERRIDDEN by both House and Senate
    To Jud for Certificate of Passage
03/29    Rpt out with Certificate of Passage
    Sp signed - Pres signed
03/30    To Secretary of State
         Session Law Chapter 272
         Effective: 07/01/07

Bill Text


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   First Regular Session - 2007
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 121
                                                                        
                              BY HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO CLEAN INDOOR AIR; AMENDING SECTION 39-5503, IDAHO CODE, TO  REMOVE
  3        BOWLING  ALLEYS  FROM THE LIST OF EXCEPTIONS TO THE PROHIBITION ON SMOKING
  4        IN A PUBLIC PLACE.
                                                                        
  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        (ed)  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        (fe)  Theatrical  production  sites, if smoking is an integral part of the
 26        story in the theatrical production;
 27        (gf)  Areas of owner-operated businesses, with no employees other than the
 28        owner-operators, that are not commonly open to the public;
 29        (hg)  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;
 33        (ih)  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        (ji)  A designated employee breakroom  established  by  a  small  business
 38        owner employing five (5) or fewer employees, provided that all of the fol-
 39        lowing 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 16598

The purpose of this legislation is to remove the exemption for bowling
alleys from the clean indoor air prohibition on smoking in a public
place.


                           FISCAL NOTE

There will be no cost to the General Fund.




Contact
Name:  Representative Ring 
       Senator Hill
Phone: 208 332-1000


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                              H 121