Sen. Terry Link
Filed: 4/4/2019
 
 

 

 

 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1864 




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1864 on page 1, by 
3replacing line 5 with the following:

4"changing Sections 10 and 35 as follows:"; and

 
5on page 9, immediately below line 24, by inserting the 
6following:
 
7    "(410 ILCS 82/35)
8    Sec. 35. Exemptions.  
9    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
10smoking is allowed in the following areas:
11        (1) Private residences or dwelling places, except when 
12    used as a child care, adult day care, or healthcare 
13    facility or any other home-based business open to the 
14    public.
15        (2) Retail tobacco stores as defined in Section 10  of 
16    this Act in operation prior to the effective date of this 
 
 
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1    amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.  The retail 
2    tobacco store shall annually file with the Department by 
3    January 31st an affidavit stating the percentage of its 
4    gross income during the prior calendar year that was 
5    derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs 
6    and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other smoking devices for 
7    smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories.  Any 
8    retail tobacco store that begins operation after the 
9    effective date of this amendatory Act may only qualify for 
10    an exemption if located in a freestanding structure 
11    occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business 
12    does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is 
13    prohibited.
14        (3) (Blank).
15        (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to 
16    guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that 
17    all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and 
18    smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking 
19    rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited.  Not more 
20    than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel 
21    may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed.  The 
22    status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be 
23    changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking 
24    rooms.
25        (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the 
26    definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this 
 
 
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1    Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act 
2    of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the 
3    rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of 
4    the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and 
5    procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; 
6    any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is 
7    unauthorized.
8        (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities

9    operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of

10    Veterans' Affairs or licensed under the Nursing Home Care 
11    Act that are accessible only to residents who
are smokers 
12    and have requested in writing to have access to
the common 
13    smoking room where smoking is permitted and the
smoke shall 
14    not infiltrate other areas of the long-term care facility. 
15    Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of 
16    the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the 
17    rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of 
18    the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and 
19    procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; 
20    any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is 
21    unauthorized.
22        (7) A convention hall of the Donald E. Stephens 
23    Convention Center where a meeting or trade show for

24    manufacturers and suppliers of tobacco and tobacco

25    products and accessories is being held, during the time the

26    meeting or trade show is occurring, if the meeting or trade

 
 
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1    show:
2            (i) is a trade-only event and not open to   the


3        public;
4            (ii) is limited to attendees and exhibitors that



5        are 21 years of age or older;
6            (iii) is being produced or organized by a business

7        relating to tobacco or a  professional  association for


8        convenience stores; and
9            (iv) involves the display of tobacco products.
10        Smoking is not allowed  in any public area outside of

11    the  hall  designated  for  the meeting  or  trade  show.
12        This
paragraph (7) is inoperative on and after October 
13    1, 2015.
14    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, use of 
15electronic cigarettes is allowed in county jails.
16(Source: P.A. 98-1023, eff. 8-22-14.)".