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Effective July 1, 2010, Kansas will be smoke free
March 3, 2010 Update
Effective July 1st, the Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act will protect Kansans from harmful secondhand smoke by banning smoking in public places, any place of employment, including restaurants and bars, and access points of all buildings not exempted by the bill. Those buildings exempted include: private homes, outdoor areas with ventilation, gaming floors of lottery gaming facilities or racetrack gaming facilities, designated smoking rooms in hotels, and tobacco shops. This is not perfect legislation and it is very possible that we will need to do more work on it next year, or pass a trailer bill. However, killing the bill would have delayed the advancement of any clean indoor air act for years.
Disingenuous clean indoor air act receives committee hearing
February 14, 2010 Update
A smoking ban proposal put forth by the chairwoman of the House Health and Human Services Committee fails to accomplish this goal. House Bill 2642 doesn’t really ban anything. It would allow businesses to decide whether to allow smoking within their building just as they do in most places now. This legislation would also repeal the smoking ordinances that have already been put in place in cities across the state of Kansas. It not only fails to protect citizens from harmful of secondhand smoke, it also disregards the vast majority of the population’s request for a comprehensive clean indoor air law and cities and counties that have already enacted restrictions locally.