No. HB 389
Filed under Healthcare.
Smoking in Public Places; Revises legislative intent; defines "public place"; revises definition of terms "smoking" & "vape" or "vaping"; prohibits smoking in public places in this state, with exceptions; provides applicability; revises requirements for customs smoking rooms to prohibit smoking & vaping of marijuana products at any time.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe law now defines 'public place' broadly to include streets, sidewalks, parks, beaches, and the common areas of schools, hospitals, offices, apartment buildings, restaurants, and stores. Smoking and vaping there becomes illegal statewide.
The existing ban on smoking in enclosed indoor workplaces is expanded to reach these new public places too, though the law carves out one new exception for unfiltered cigars.
Marijuana smoke and vapor are folded into the same rules that already govern tobacco and nicotine. The stated purpose of the law now covers protecting people from secondhand marijuana smoke as well.
Airport customs smoking rooms, though still allowed for tobacco, may never be used to smoke or vape marijuana products, closing a gap the marijuana-inclusive definitions would otherwise have left open.
AIA new definition covers any place the public has access to, expressly naming streets, sidewalks, highways, parks, and beaches along with the common areas of schools, hospitals, government buildings, apartments, offices, lodging, restaurants, transit facilities, and retail shops.
AIThe existing prohibition on smoking or vaping in an enclosed indoor workplace is expanded to also bar it in any public place as newly defined, subject to the exceptions already listed in section 386.2045.
AIThe bill writes a specific carve-out into the prohibition itself: the ban on smoking or vaping in an enclosed indoor workplace or public place does not apply to the smoking of unfiltered cigars.
AIThe definitions of 'smoking' and 'vaping' are expanded to explicitly include lighted marijuana products and vapor produced from a marijuana product, placing marijuana under the same rules that already govern tobacco and nicotine.
AIAirport customs smoking rooms, which are otherwise exempt from the general indoor smoking ban, may never be used to smoke or vape marijuana products, regardless of what is allowed for tobacco in the same room.