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Senate rejects Hilliards clean-indoor-air measure after extended debate and hearings
Summary
After hours of floor debate and a Committee of the Whole that heard testimony from tourism, bowling and industry representatives, the Utah Senate voted 7-21 (1 absent) to defeat Senate Bill 132, Lyle Hilliards proposal to widen smoke-free requirements in restaurants and similar public places.
Senator Lyle Hilliard brought Senate Bill 132 to the floor as a statewide update to Utahs 1976 clean-indoor-air framework, proposing a phased implementation to make most restaurants smoke-free by Oct. 1, 1993. Hilliard told colleagues the bill aims to protect nonsmokers and employees from secondhand smoke and to enforce a standard that existing statute had not achieved in practice.
The bill prompted sustained debate and an extended Committee of the Whole…
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