96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5997

 

Introduced 2/10/2010, by Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 82/35

    Amends the Smoke Free Illinois Act. Preempts home rule powers with regard to regulating smoking in facilities licensed under the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. Effective immediately.


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HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning public health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Smoke Free Illinois Act is amended by
5 changing Section 35 as follows:
 
6     (410 ILCS 82/35)
7     Sec. 35. Exemptions. Notwithstanding any other provision
8 of this Act, smoking is allowed in 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) Private and semi-private rooms in nursing homes and
6     long-term care facilities that are occupied by one or more
7     persons, all of whom are smokers and have requested in
8     writing to be placed or to remain in a room where smoking
9     is permitted and the smoke shall not infiltrate other areas
10     of the nursing home. No local, municipal, or county
11     ordinance or law shall supersede this item (3) in allowing
12     facilities licensed under the Illinois Nursing Home Care
13     Act to designate smoking areas that comply with the
14     national Fire Safety Protection Act and the federal Life
15     Safety Code. Notwithstanding Section 65 of this Act, a home
16     rule unit may not regulate smoking in facilities licensed
17     under the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act. This item (3) is
18     a denial and limitation of home rule powers and functions
19     under subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the
20     Illinois Constitution.
21         (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to
22     guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that
23     all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and
24     smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking
25     rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more
26     than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel

 

 

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1     may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The
2     status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be
3     changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking
4     rooms.
5         (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the
6     definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this
7     Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act
8     of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the
9     rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of
10     the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and
11     procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
12     any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is
13     unauthorized.
14         (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities
15     operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of
16     Veterans' Affairs that are accessible only to residents who
17     are smokers and have requested in writing to have access to
18     the common smoking room where smoking is permitted and the
19     smoke shall not infiltrate other areas of the long-term
20     care facility. Rulemaking authority to implement this
21     amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is
22     conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance with
23     all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure
24     Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on
25     Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted,
26     for whatever reason, is unauthorized.

 

 

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1 (Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09.)
 
2     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3 becoming law.