Key Votes
HB 4163 - Workplace Smoking Ban - Key Vote
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Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (25-12) - May 8, 2008 (Key vote)
Title: Workplace Smoking Ban
Highlights:
- Requires "no smoking" signs to be conspicuously placed at the entrances to, as well as inside of, every building and area where smoking is prohibited, and requires all smoking paraphernalia to be removed from any nonsmoking areas (Sec. 12603).
- Requires employers and food service establishments to adopt and prominently post a written nonsmoking policy (Sec. 12606).
- Establishes a maximum fine of $100 for first-time violations and a maximum fine of $500 for each subsequent violation (Sec. 12611).
Note:
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (56-46) - Dec. 5, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Workplace Smoking Ban
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that bans smoking in the workplace.
Highlights:
- Bans smoking in government buildings and places of employment [Sec. 12603 (1)].
- Requires "No Smoking" signs be displayed at every facility where smoking is prohibited [Sec. 12603 (2)].
- Establishes a fine of $100 for the first violation and $500 for every subsequent violation [Sec. 12611].
- Exempts cigar bars, tobacco shops, and casinos from the ban [Sec. 12606A (1-2) & Sec. 12606B (1)].
- This is a substitute bill (H-5) offered by Rep. Clack.
Note:
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 30, 2007
Title: Workplace Smoking Ban
Sponsors
- Brenda J. Clack (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Frank Accavitti Jr. (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard J. 'Dick' Ball (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joan Bauer (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Steven 'Steve' Bieda (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jack Brandenburg (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Pamela 'Pam' Byrnes (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marsha G. Cheeks (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Paul F. Condino (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marc R. Corriveau (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Andy Dillon (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marie Donigan (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Matthew O. 'Matt' Gillard (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lee Gonzales (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard E. Hammel (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ted Hammon (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Hoon-Yung Hopgood (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Shanelle Jackson (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bert Johnson (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert B. Jones (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gabriel 'Gabe' Leland (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- LaMar Lemmons Jr. (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mark S. Meadows (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tim Melton (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gino H. Polidori (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michael G. Sak (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tonya L. Schuitmaker (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Rick S. Shaffer (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joel A. Sheltrown (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Virgil K. Smith Jr. (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Alma Wheeler Smith (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Aldo Vagnozzi (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary Valentine (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rebekah Warren (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Coleman A. Young II (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
