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Senate advances bill making smoking in vehicles with young children a secondary infraction
Summary
The Utah Senate moved Senate Bill 43 to the third-reading calendar after a contentious debate over private-property rights and child welfare. The bill would make smoking in a vehicle when a child 5 years or younger is present a secondary infraction, with fines up to $45 or enrollment in cessation programs as an alternative.
Senators voted to advance Senate Bill 43 to third reading after more than an hour of debate over enforcement and property rights.
Senator Scott McCoy, sponsor, said the bill “would make it an a secondary infraction … to smoke in a vehicle when a child 5 years old or younger is present,” and explained that law enforcement could only cite the infraction if a driver had been stopped for another moving violation. He said the legislation sets a maximum fine of $45 and allows a person to avoid the monetary penalty by proving enrollment in a smoking-cessation program.
McCoy cited public-health evidence in…
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