West Virginia Senate Bill 400 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-03 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to exempt employers that have as one of their primary purposes or objectives to discourage the use of tobacco products by the general public from discriminating against tobacco users. The bill exempts employers whose principal business is the operation of a health care facility that provide treatment to patients with life threatening illnesses caused by or related to the use of tobacco products from discriminating against tobacco users. The bill also exempts affiliated employers whose principal business is directly related to those other two types of employers from discriminating against tobacco users.

Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users

Sen. Ryan Ferns [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-03	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2015-02-03	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2015-02-03	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2015-02-03	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
21	3	19	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=400&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb400%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=400