House Amendment 8025


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 2212 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
     1  3 clause and inserting the following:
     1  4    <Section 1.  Section 142B.1, subsection 3, Code
     1  5 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     1  6    3.  "Public place" means any enclosed indoor area
     1  7 used by the general public or serving as a place of
     1  8 work containing two hundred fifty or more square feet
     1  9 of floor space, including, but not limited to, all
     1 10 restaurants with a seating capacity greater than
     1 11 fifty, all retail stores, lobbies and malls, offices,
     1 12 including waiting rooms, and other commercial
     1 13 establishments; public conveyances with departures,
     1 14 travel, and destination entirely within this state;
     1 15 educational facilities; hospitals, clinics, nursing
     1 16 homes, and other health care and medical facilities;
     1 17 and auditoriums, elevators, theaters, libraries, art
     1 18 museums, concert halls, indoor arenas, and meeting
     1 19 rooms.  "Public place" does not include a retail store
     1 20 at which fifty percent or more of the sales result
     1 21 from the sale of tobacco or tobacco products, the
     1 22 portion of a retail store where tobacco or tobacco
     1 23 products are sold, a private, enclosed office occupied
     1 24 exclusively by smokers even though the office may be
     1 25 visited by nonsmokers, a room used primarily as the
     1 26 residence of students or other persons at an
     1 27 educational facility, a sleeping room in a motel or
     1 28 hotel, or each resident's room in a health care
     1 29 facility.  The person in custody or control of the
     1 30 facility shall provide a sufficient number of rooms in
     1 31 which smoking is not permitted to accommodate all
     1 32 persons who desire such rooms.
     1 33    Sec. 2.  Section 142B.2, Code 2007, is amended by
     1 34 adding the following new subsection:
     1 35    NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  Notwithstanding subsection 1,
     1 36 smoking is prohibited in all restaurants.>
     1 37 #2.  Title page, line 1, by striking the words <a
     1 38 smokefree air Act and providing penalties> and
     1 39 inserting the following:  <smokefree restaurants, and
     1 40 making penalties applicable>.
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     1 44 PAULSEN of Linn
     1 45 HF 2212.713 82
     1 46 pf/rj/10585
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