5E " Freedom to Breathe Act of 2007"; modifying the definition of displaced worker to include an individual permanently separated from employment in a restaurant, bar or lawful gambling organization between certain dates due to implementation of any state law prohibiting smoking; establishing public policy to protect employees and the general public from the hazards of secondhand smoke; modifying certain provisions under the clean indoor air act; defining indoor area, places of employment and public transportation and modifying the definitions of public place and smoking; prohibiting smoking in places of employment, public transportation and public meetings; requiring family home or group family day care providers to disclose to parents or guardians of children cared for on the premises of the existence of smoking on the premises outside the hours of operation; expanding the prohibition on smoking in health care facilities to licensed residential facilities for children and modifying the prohibition on smoking in health care facilities and clinics, authorizing smoking by patients in locked psychiatric units under certain conditions; authorizing smoking in public transportation vehicles used for personal use by the driver, passengers disclosure requirement; strengthening the responsibility of proprietors in charge of public places to prevent smoking; authorizing smoking in scientific studies, traditional native American ceremonies, private homes, residences, automobiles, hotels and motel rooms, tobacco products shops, heavy commercial vehicles, farm vehicles and construction equipment, family farms, disabled veterans rest camp and theatrical productions; specifying penalties for violations; authorizing local governments to enact more stringent measures; requiring the gambling control board in cooperation with the commissioner of revenue to study the impact of a statewide smoking ban in public places on lawful gambling, requiring report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the job skills partnership board to enable the dislocated worker program to provide services to employees of bars, restaurants and lawful gambling organizations becoming unemployed as a result of new smoking regulations; repealing the provision authorizing the designation of smoking areas in public places
(Ch. 82, 2007)