Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0459

"Freedom to Breath Act of 2005"; modifying certain provisions under the clean
indoor air act; prohibiting smoking in places of employment and in public
transportation vehicles, defining smoking, indoor area, places of employment and
public transportation and modifying the definition of public place; 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 nursing and boarding care
homes; authorizing smoking in public transportation vehicles used for personal
purposes by the driver, passengers disclosure requirement; strengthening the
responsibility of proprietors in charge of public places to prevent smoking;
authorizing smoking in traditional native American ceremonies; specifically
excluding private homes, residences, automobiles hotel or motel rooms and
tobacco products shops from the smoking prohibitions; enumerating violations of
the prohibitions, providing an affirmative defense to the charge of failing to
prohibit smoking and prohibiting retaliatory actions against violation reporters
or against employees, employment applicants or customers exercising the right to
a smoke free environment; authorizing more stringent local government
regulations to protect individuals from second hand smoke; repealing the
provision authorizing the designation of smoking areas in public places
(me)