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House passes amended smoking restrictions; members debate airport lounge exclusion
Summary
The Utah House on March 1, 1994, passed House Bill 50 — expanding public indoor smoking restrictions — after the Senate’s amendments redefined and lowered fines and removed an airport lounge exclusion; a later motion to reconsider that change was introduced and heavily debated but did not succeed in undoing the House’s action.
The Utah House voted to approve House Bill 50, a measure tightening public indoor smoking rules, after concurring with Senate amendments that restructured penalties and excluded ventilated airport lounge boxes from the bill’s exemptions.
Representative Brittney Tanner, who explained the Senate amendments on the House floor, said the Senate ‘‘redefined [the fines] and actually lowered the fines’’ and described the change removing airport enclosed lounges as a ‘‘friendly…
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