Bill Text: MS HB377 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Smoking; prohibit in motor vehicle with child passenger under age six.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee [HB377 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2017-HB377-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2017 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services
By: Representative Hines
House Bill 377
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT PERSONS FROM KNOWINGLY SMOKING IN A MOTOR VEHICLE IN WHICH A CHILD WHO IS LESS THAN SIX YEARS OF AGE IS A PASSENGER; TO PROVIDE THAT A VIOLATION OF THIS ACT IS A MISDEMEANOR PUNISHABLE BY A FINE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Mississippi Protection from Secondhand Smoke for Children Act."
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle, except a school bus, a church bus, or other public conveyance, that is required by federal or state law or regulation to be equipped with a passenger restraint system.
(b) "Smoke" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying or otherwise possessing any lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or any other object or device that contains lighted tobacco.
(3) A person shall not
knowingly smoke in a motor vehicle in which a child who is less than six (6)
years of age is a passenger.
(4) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of Twenty-five Dollars
($25.00).
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.
