Bill Text: IL SB0744 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-5)
Status: (Failed) 2013-03-04 - Total Veto Stands [SB0744 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SB0744-Amended.html
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-5)
Status: (Failed) 2013-03-04 - Total Veto Stands [SB0744 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SB0744-Amended.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 744
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 744, AS AMENDED, | ||||||
3 | with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. | ||||||
4 | 1 as follows:
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5 | on page 390, immediately below line 2, by inserting the | ||||||
6 | following:
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7 | "Section 90-47. The Smoke Free Illinois Act is amended by | ||||||
8 | changing Section 35 as follows:
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9 | (410 ILCS 82/35) | ||||||
10 | Sec. 35. Exemptions. Notwithstanding any other provision | ||||||
11 | of this Act, smoking is allowed in the following areas: | ||||||
12 | (1) Private residences or dwelling places, except when | ||||||
13 | used as a child care, adult day care, or healthcare | ||||||
14 | facility or any other home-based business open to the | ||||||
15 | public. |
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1 | (2) Retail tobacco stores as defined in Section 10 of | ||||||
2 | this Act in operation prior to the effective date of this | ||||||
3 | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly. The retail | ||||||
4 | tobacco store shall annually file with the Department by | ||||||
5 | January 31st an affidavit stating the percentage of its | ||||||
6 | gross income during the prior calendar year that was | ||||||
7 | derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs | ||||||
8 | and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other smoking devices for | ||||||
9 | smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories. Any | ||||||
10 | retail tobacco store that begins operation after the | ||||||
11 | effective date of this amendatory Act may only qualify for | ||||||
12 | an exemption if located in a freestanding structure | ||||||
13 | occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business | ||||||
14 | does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is | ||||||
15 | prohibited. | ||||||
16 | (3) (Blank). | ||||||
17 | (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to | ||||||
18 | guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that | ||||||
19 | all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and | ||||||
20 | smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking | ||||||
21 | rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more | ||||||
22 | than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel | ||||||
23 | may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The | ||||||
24 | status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be | ||||||
25 | changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking | ||||||
26 | rooms. |
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1 | (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the | ||||||
2 | definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this | ||||||
3 | Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act | ||||||
4 | of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the | ||||||
5 | rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of | ||||||
6 | the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and | ||||||
7 | procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; | ||||||
8 | any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is | ||||||
9 | unauthorized. | ||||||
10 | (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities
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11 | operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of
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12 | Veterans' Affairs or licensed under the Nursing Home Care | ||||||
13 | Act that are accessible only to residents who
are smokers | ||||||
14 | and have requested in writing to have access to
the common | ||||||
15 | smoking room where smoking is permitted and the
smoke shall | ||||||
16 | not infiltrate other areas of the long-term care facility. | ||||||
17 | Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of | ||||||
18 | the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the | ||||||
19 | rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of | ||||||
20 | the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and | ||||||
21 | procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; | ||||||
22 | any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is | ||||||
23 | unauthorized. | ||||||
24 | (7) Gaming facilities licensed under the Riverboat | ||||||
25 | Gambling Act, if smoking is not banned in gaming facilities | ||||||
26 | located in the nearest neighboring state. This exemption |
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1 | shall no longer apply to a gaming facility on and after the | ||||||
2 | date that smoking is banned in gaming facilities located in | ||||||
3 | the nearest neighboring state. | ||||||
4 | (Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09; | ||||||
5 | 96-1357, eff. 1-1-11.)".
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