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2007 PDS Handout-Unintended Consequences of Drafting: The Colorado Smoking Ban Bill Presentation: House Bill 06-1175 Rerevised
Amended 3rd Reading
LLS NO. 06-0247.01 Duane Gall HOUSE BILL 06-1175
May M. and Pommer, Larson, Balmer, Benefield, Berens, Boyd, Carroll T., Frangas, Hall, Lindstrom, McCluskey, McGihon, Riesberg, Soper, Stengel, Sullivan, Todd, and Vigil
Grossman and Evans, Fitz-Gerald, Groff, Johnson, Tupa, and Windels
Concerning enactment of the "Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act", and, in connection therewith, prohibiting smoking in indoor enclosed areas, including places of employment.
Enacts the "Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act" (act). Makes legislative findings and declares that the purpose of the act is to preserve and improve the health, comfort, and environment of the people of this state by limiting exposure to tobacco smoke.
Specifies that, to reduce the levels of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, smoking shall not be permitted in any indoor enclosed area, including, but not limited to: Public meeting places; elevators; government-owned or -operated means of mass transportation, including, but not limited to, buses, vans, and trains; taxicabs and limousines; grocery stores; gymnasiums; jury waiting and deliberation rooms; courtrooms; child day care facilities; health care facilities, including hospitals, health care clinics, doctor's offices, and other health care related facilities; any place of employment not exempted; food service establishments; bars; limited gaming facilities; indoor sports arenas; restrooms, lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in public and private buildings, condominiums, other multiple-unit residential facilities, hotels, and motels; at least 75% of the sleeping quarters within a hotel or motel that are rented to guests; bowling alleys; billiard or pool halls; retirement facilities and nursing homes, not including any private residence; public buildings; auditoria; theaters; museums; libraries; public schools, nonpublic schools, and other educational and vocational institutions; and facilities in which games of chance are conducted. In the case of employers who own facilities exempted from this act, requires those employers to provide a smoke-free work area for every employee requesting not to have to breathe environmental tobacco smoke and establishes that every employee has a right to work in an area free of environmental tobacco smoke.
Makes exceptions to the general prohibitions of smoking for private homes, residences, and automobiles; limousines under private hire; hotel or motel rooms if the total percentage of the hotel or motel rooms in which smoking is permitted does not exceed 25%; retail tobacco businesses; cigar-tobacco bars; the enclosed smoking areas of a municipally operated international airport; and the outdoor area of any business.
Permits the owner or manager of any place to post, at such owner's or manager's discretion, signs prohibiting smoking or providing smoking and nonsmoking areas, which posting will have the effect of including such areas within the places where smoking is prohibited or restricted under the act.
Permits local authorities to enact smoking regulations that cover the same subject matter as the provisions of the act. Specifies that no local regulations can be less stringent than the act, except in defining the smoke-free radius around the doorway of a building, which, unless otherwise specified, shall be 15 feet. Allows enforcement of such local regulations through the municipal courts or their equivalent in any city, city and county, or town.
Makes violation of the act a class 2 petty offense punishable by a fine not to exceed $200 for a first violation within a calendar year, a fine not to exceed $300 for a second violation within a calendar year, and a fine not to exceed $500 for each additional violation within a calendar year. Deems each day of a continuing violation a separate violation of the act.
Makes it an unfair employment practice, unfair housing practice, and a discriminatory practice for a place of public accommodation to retaliate against any person or discharge any employee for requesting enforcement of the act or reporting a violation.
Repeals provisions of current law that are inconsistent with the provisions of the act.
SECTION 1. Article 14 of title 25, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PART to read:
25-14-201. Short title. This part 2 shall be known and may be cited as the "Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act".
25-14-202. Legislative declaration. The general assembly hereby finds and determines that it is in the best interest of the people of this state to protect nonsmokers from involuntary exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in most indoor areas open to the public, public meetings, food service establishments, and places of employment. The general assembly further finds and determines that a balance should be struck between the health concerns of nonconsumers of tobacco products and the need to minimize unwarranted governmental intrusion into, and regulation of, private spheres of conduct and choice with respect to the use or nonuse of tobacco products in certain designated public areas and in private places. Therefore, the general assembly hereby declares that the purpose of this part 2 is to preserve and improve the health, comfort, and environment of the people of this state by limiting exposure to tobacco smoke.
(16) "Smoking" means the burning of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, or any other matter or substance that contains tobacco.
25-14-204. General smoking restrictions. (1) Except as provided in section 25-14-205, and in order to reduce the levels of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke in any indoor area, including, but not limited to:
(u) The common areas of retirement facilities, publicly owned housing facilities, and nursing homes, not including any resident's private residential quarters;
(i) A private, nonresidential building on a farm or ranch, as defined in section 39-1-102, C.R.S., that has annual gross income of less than five hundred thousand dollars;
(j) The retail floor plan, as defined in section 12-47.1-509, C.R.S., of a licensed casino;
(k) An establishment that is licensed under article 47 of title 12, C.R.S., and derives twenty-five percent or less of its annual gross revenue from the sale of food ;
(l) The premises of a private membership organization. As used in this paragraph (l), a "private membership organization" means a private club or other organization that maintains a roster of dues-paying members that is updated on a monthly or less frequent basis.
(m) The business premises of a racetrack or other facility, licensed under article 60 of title 12, C.R.S., other than any portion of the premises that is identified as a restaurant; or
(n) Premises owned or rented by a bingo-raffle licensee for the conduct of games of chance pursuant to article 9 of title 12, C.R.S., while the premises are being used for the conduct of games of chance.
25-14-207. Other applicable regulations of smoking - local counterpart regulations authorized. (1) This part 2 shall not be interpreted or construed to permit smoking where it is otherwise restricted by any other applicable law.
25-14-208. Unlawful acts - penalty - disposition of fines and surcharges. (1) It is unlawful for a person who owns, manages, operates, or otherwise controls the use of a premises subject to this part 2 to violate any provision of this part 2.
25-14-209. Severability. If any provision of this part 2 or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this part 2 that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this part 2 are declared to be severable.
SECTION 2. Repeal. 25-14-101, Colorado Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
25-14-101. Legislative declaration. The general assembly hereby declares that the smoking of tobacco or any other plant or weed under certain conditions is a matter of public concern and that in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare it is necessary to control such smoking in certain public places.
SECTION 3. Repeal. 25-14-102, Colorado Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
25-14-102. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Public meeting" means any meeting required to be open to the public pursuant to part 4 of article 6 of title 24, C.R.S.
(2) "Public place" means any enclosed, indoor area used by the general public or serving as a place of work including, but not limited to, restaurants, retail stores, other commercial establishments, governmental offices, waiting rooms of health care professionals, public conveyances, educational facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, auditoriums, arenas, assembly and meeting rooms, and rest rooms, but the term does not include enclosed offices occupied exclusively by smokers, even though such offices may be visited by nonsmokers.
(3) "Smoking" means the carrying of a lighted pipe, lighted cigar, or lighted cigarette of any kind and includes the lighting of a pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind.
SECTION 4. Repeal. 25-14-103, Colorado Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
25-14-103. Smoking prohibited in certain public places. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (1), smoking is prohibited in the following public places:
(a) Elevators, museums, galleries, and libraries of any establishment doing business with the general public;
(b) (I) All hospital elevators and corridors and wherever combustible supplies or materials are stored and wherever flammable liquids or gases or oxygen is stored or in use in the hospital. In addition to the specific prohibitions provided in this subparagraph (I), hospitals shall:
(A) Allow all patients, prior to elective admission, to choose to be in a no smoking patient room and, when possible, accommodate such request;
(B) Prohibit employees from smoking in patient rooms;
(C) Require that visitors obtain express approval from all patients in a patient room prior to smoking.
(II) All areas of a hospital not specifically referred to in this paragraph (b) shall be considered smoking areas unless posted otherwise.
(III) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a hospital from banning smoking on all or part of its premises.
(IV) No other restrictions provided in this article shall apply to hospitals licensed pursuant to article 3 of this title or holding a valid certificate of compliance pursuant to section 25-1.5-103 (1) (a) (II).
(c) Waiting rooms and meeting rooms located in all buildings owned or operated by the executive and judicial branches of government of the state of Colorado or any political subdivision thereof except in areas designated for smoking;
(d) Any building used or designed primarily for the purpose of exhibiting any motion picture, stage drama, lecture, musical recital, or other such performance whenever open to the public; except that, unless otherwise prohibited by local ordinance or regulation, smoking shall be allowed in an area commonly referred to as a lobby if such lobby is reasonably separated from the spectator area and in designated seating areas of moving picture theaters where ventilation is adequate to achieve the purposes of this article. This prohibition applies also to enclosed sporting arenas.
(e) Public transportation vehicles when open to the public, except in designated smoking areas.
(2) Restaurants and taverns are not subject to the specific prohibitions of this article, but restaurants and taverns are encouraged, whenever possible, to seat nonsmokers in an area away from smokers. Any public place where food is sold or served and in which neither a smoking nor a nonsmoking area is designated shall post a sign in a conspicuous place at or inside its entrance indicating whether or not provisions have been made for nonsmokers.
(3) The owner, manager, or any person in charge of a public place specified in subsection (1) of this section shall control smoking throughout such public place by posting signs which clearly designate nonsmoking and, where provided, smoking areas. Such signs shall be explicit and conspicuous, but the wording, size, color, design, and place of posting shall be at the discretion of the owner, manager, or person in charge.
(4) Those in charge of offices and commercial establishments that provide employment for the general public are encouraged to designate nonsmoking areas that are physically separated from the working environments where other employees smoke. Every effort shall be made to provide a separate area for nonsmokers in employee lounges and cafeterias.
SECTION 5. Repeal. 25-14-103.7, Colorado Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
25-14-103.7. Control of smoking in state legislative buildings. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, smoking is prohibited in all state legislative buildings.
(2) The legislative council created by section 2-3-301, C.R.S., or its designee:
(a) May designate areas in legislative buildings where smoking is permitted;
(b) Shall consider proposals to redesignate any area designated as a smoking area pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (2);
(c) Shall establish a smoking policy for office space within legislative buildings; and
(d) Shall ensure that signs are posted that clearly designate nonsmoking and smoking areas.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the control or limitation of smoking in the chambers, antechambers, committee rooms of the senate and the house of representatives, and office space assigned to and occupied by legislators shall be governed by the provisions of section 2-2-404 (1.5), C.R.S.
(a) "Legislative building" means any building which is owned or operated by the legislative branch and which is under the direction and control of such branch.
(b) "Smoking" shall have the same meaning as set forth in section 25-14-102 (3).
SECTION 6. Repeal. 25-14-104, Colorado Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
25-14-104. Optional prohibition. The owner or manager of a public place other than one specifically provided in section 25-14-103 (1) may post, at his discretion, signs prohibiting smoking or providing smoking and nonsmoking areas. Such posting shall have the effect of including such public place in the public places where smoking is prohibited or restricted pursuant to section 25-14-103 (1).
SECTION 7. Repeal. 25-14-105, Colorado Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
25-14-105. Local regulations. Nothing in this article shall prevent any town, city, or city and county, nor any county within the unincorporated areas thereof, from regulating smoking; and such county, town, city, or city and county is hereby expressly authorized to adopt ordinances embodying such regulations. Where such regulations are adopted on the local level as authorized in this section, the local regulations shall control to the extent of any inconsistency between them and this article.
SECTION 8. Repeal. 2-2-404 (1.5), Colorado Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
2-2-404. Legislative rules. (1.5) Smoking in the state capitol and other legislative buildings shall be governed by section 25-14-103.7, C.R.S.; except that the senate and the house of representatives each has the exclusive authority to adopt rules or joint rules, or both, governing the control or limitation of smoking in their respective chambers, antechambers, committee rooms, and office space assigned to and occupied by legislators.
SECTION 9. Effective date - applicability. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006, and shall apply to acts occurring on or after said date.
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