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SF 2285 Senate Long Description

Relating to smokingARTICLE 1 - INDOOR SMOKINGModifying certain provisions under the clean indoor air act; removing the exclusion of private enclosed offices from the definition of public place and generally prohibiting smoking in public places, retaining the exception for designated smoking areas of bars and restaurants and removing the exception for factories, warehouses and similar workplaces; authorizing owners or lessors of multitenant buildings with common heating, ventilating or air conditioning (HVAC) systems to designate parts of the building served by the common system as smoke free, providing for certain exceptions; requiring designated smoking areas to meet standards for smoke containment to be established by the commissioner of health, specifying certain standards requirements and options; providing for employee rights relating to entry into smoking areas ARTICLE 2 - ADVERTISING RESTRICTIONSProhibiting the advertising or promotion of cigarettes or tobacco within a certain distance of school property, playgrounds or child care or youth centers, excepting the distribution of coupons under certain conditions; requiring owner, operator or lessee removal of noncompliant advertisements within a certain period of time; imposing civil penalties for violationARTICLE 3 - LITTERINGDefining the deposit of partially burned cigarettes or ash as littering in state parks and on streets, highways, public lands or waters and private land without the consent of the owner, penalties(ra)