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House expands Indoor Clean Air Act to include e-cigarettes and hookah in public places; substitute passes after lengthy debate
Summary
After extended floor debate over public health and small-business exemptions, the House passed a substitute to HB 245 to bring heated tobacco, hookah and e-cigarette use under the Indoor Clean Air Act by a 42-31 vote; substitute language and multiple motions on exemptions were considered and several failed.
The Utah House on Feb. 20 passed a third substitute to House Bill 245, which changes the definition of "smoking" in the Indoor Clean Air Act to cover heated tobacco products, hookah and e-cigarette use in public indoor spaces. The substitute passed on a 42-31 roll call.
Representative Rebecca Last, sponsor of the measure, described efforts to bring the statute up to date with newer products and said the bill is focused on the Clean Indoor Air Act, not a prohibition on individual choices. "This bill's really about the Clean Indoor Air Act," she said,…
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