Bill Text: IL SB0828 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Smoke Free Illinois Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning exemptions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0828 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB0828-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning health.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Smoke Free Illinois Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 35 as follows:
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6 | (410 ILCS 82/35) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 35. Exemptions. Notwithstanding any other provision | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | of this Act, smoking is allowed in the
the following areas: | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (1) Private residences or dwelling places, except when | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | used as a child care, adult day care, or healthcare | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | facility or any other home-based business open to the | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | public. | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | (2) Retail tobacco stores as defined in Section 10 of | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | this Act in operation prior to the effective date of this | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly. The retail | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | tobacco store shall annually file with the Department by | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | January 31st an affidavit stating the percentage of its | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | gross income during the prior calendar year that was | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other smoking devices for | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories. Any | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | retail tobacco store that begins operation after the | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | effective date of this amendatory Act may only qualify for |
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1 | an exemption if located in a freestanding structure | ||||||
2 | occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business | ||||||
3 | does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is | ||||||
4 | prohibited. | ||||||
5 | (3) (Blank). | ||||||
6 | (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to | ||||||
7 | guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that | ||||||
8 | all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and | ||||||
9 | smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking | ||||||
10 | rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more | ||||||
11 | than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel | ||||||
12 | may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The | ||||||
13 | status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be | ||||||
14 | changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking | ||||||
15 | rooms. | ||||||
16 | (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the | ||||||
17 | definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this | ||||||
18 | Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act | ||||||
19 | of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the | ||||||
20 | rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of | ||||||
21 | the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and | ||||||
22 | procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; | ||||||
23 | any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is | ||||||
24 | unauthorized. | ||||||
25 | (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities
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26 | operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of
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1 | Veterans' Affairs or licensed under the Nursing Home Care | ||||||
2 | Act that are accessible only to residents who
are smokers | ||||||
3 | and have requested in writing to have access to
the common | ||||||
4 | smoking room where smoking is permitted and the
smoke shall | ||||||
5 | not infiltrate other areas of the long-term care facility. | ||||||
6 | Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of | ||||||
7 | the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the | ||||||
8 | rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of | ||||||
9 | the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and | ||||||
10 | procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; | ||||||
11 | any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is | ||||||
12 | unauthorized. | ||||||
13 | (Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09; | ||||||
14 | 96-1357, eff. 1-1-11.)
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