Virginia HB 489: Va. Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibitions on smoking in satellite facilities.

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20100897D

HOUSE BILL NO. 489 

Offered January 8, 2020 

Prefiled January 3, 2020 

A BILL to amend and reenact � 15.2-2824 of the Code of 
 Virginia, relating to the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; prohibitions on 
 smoking; satellite facilities. 
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Patron-- Marshall (By Request) 

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Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 15.2-2824 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:

� 15.2-2824. Prohibitions on smoking generally; penalty for 
 violation.

A. Smoking shall be prohibited in (i) elevators, regardless of 
 capacity, except in any open material hoist elevator not intended for use by 
 the general public; (ii) public school buses; (iii) the interior of any public 
 elementary, intermediate, and secondary school; (iv) hospital emergency rooms; 
 (v) local or district health departments; (vi) polling rooms; (vii) indoor 
 service lines and cashier lines; (viii) public restrooms in any building owned 
 or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof; (ix) the interior of a 
 child day center licensed pursuant to � 63.2-1701 that is not also used for 
 residential purposes; however, this prohibition shall not apply to any area of 
 a building not utilized by a child day center, unless otherwise prohibited by 
 this chapter; and 
 (x) public restrooms of health care facilities; 
 and (xi) satellite facilities, as defined in � 59.1-365.

B. No person shall smoke in any area or place specified in 
 subsection A and any person who continues to smoke in such area or place after 
 having been asked to refrain from smoking shall be subject to a civil penalty 
 of not more than $25.

C. Civil penalties assessed under this section shall be paid 
 into the Virginia Health Care Fund established under � 32.1-366.