Sen. Heather Steans

Filed: 3/15/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 851

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 851 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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

 

 

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1     January 31st an affidavit stating the percentage of its
2     gross income during the prior calendar year that was
3     derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs
4     and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other smoking devices for
5     smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories. Any
6     retail tobacco store that begins operation after the
7     effective date of this amendatory Act may only qualify for
8     an exemption if located in a freestanding structure
9     occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business
10     does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is
11     prohibited.
12         (3) (Blank). Private and semi-private rooms in nursing
13     homes and long-term care facilities that are occupied by
14     one or more persons, all of whom are smokers and have
15     requested in writing to be placed or to remain in a room
16     where smoking is permitted and the smoke shall not
17     infiltrate other areas of the nursing home.
18         (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to
19     guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that
20     all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and
21     smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking
22     rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more
23     than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel
24     may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The
25     status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be
26     changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking

 

 

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1     rooms.
2         (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the
3     definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this
4     Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act
5     of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the
6     rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of
7     the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and
8     procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
9     any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is
10     unauthorized.
11         (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities
12     operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of
13     Veterans' Affairs or licensed under the Nursing Home Care
14     Act that are accessible only to residents who are smokers
15     and have requested in writing to have access to the common
16     smoking room where smoking is permitted and the smoke shall
17     not infiltrate other areas of the long-term care facility.
18     Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of
19     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 (Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09.)".