94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1516

 

Introduced 02/10/05, by Rep. Julie Hamos

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 80/11   from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 8211

    Amends the Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning home rule powers.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act is amended by
5 changing Section 11 as follows:
 
6     (410 ILCS 80/11)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 8211)
7     Sec. 11. A A home rule or non-home rule unit of local
8 government in this State shall not have the power and
9 authority, after the effective date of this Act, to regulate
10 smoking in public places. Pursuant to Article VII, Section 6,
11 paragraph (h) of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, it is
12 declared to be the law of this State that the regulation of
13 smoking as provided by this Act is a power which pre-empts home
14 rule units from exercising such power subject to the
15 limitations provided in the Act, provided that any home rule
16 unit that has passed an ordinance concerning the regulation of
17 smoking prior to October 1, 1989 is exempt from pre-emption.
18 (Source: P.A. 86-1018.)