97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB3551

 

Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Rita Mayfield

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 82/10
410 ILCS 82/35

    Amends the Smoke Free Illinois Act. Removes private clubs from the list of locations included in the definition of "public place". Exempts private clubs from the Act.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Smoke Free Illinois Act is amended by
5changing Sections 10 and 35 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 82/10)
7    Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
8    "Bar" means an establishment that is devoted to the serving
9of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the
10premises and that derives no more than 10% of its gross revenue
11from the sale of food consumed on the premises. "Bar" includes,
12but is not limited to, taverns, nightclubs, cocktail lounges,
13adult entertainment facilities, and cabarets.
14    "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
15    "Employee" means a person who is employed by an employer in
16consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profits
17or a person who volunteers his or her services for a non-profit
18entity.
19    "Employer" means a person, business, partnership,
20association, or corporation, including a municipal
21corporation, trust, or non-profit entity, that employs the
22services of one or more individual persons.
23    "Enclosed area" means all space between a floor and a

 

 

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1ceiling that is enclosed or partially enclosed with (i) solid
2walls or windows, exclusive of doorways, or (ii) solid walls
3with partitions and no windows, exclusive of doorways, that
4extend from the floor to the ceiling, including, without
5limitation, lobbies and corridors.
6    "Enclosed or partially enclosed sports arena" means any
7sports pavilion, stadium, gymnasium, health spa, boxing arena,
8swimming pool, roller rink, ice rink, bowling alley, or other
9similar place where members of the general public assemble to
10engage in physical exercise or participate in athletic
11competitions or recreational activities or to witness sports,
12cultural, recreational, or other events.
13    "Gaming equipment or supplies" means gaming
14equipment/supplies as defined in the Illinois Gaming Board
15Rules of the Illinois Administrative Code.
16    "Gaming facility" means an establishment utilized
17primarily for the purposes of gaming and where gaming equipment
18or supplies are operated for the purposes of accruing business
19revenue.
20    "Healthcare facility" means an office or institution
21providing care or treatment of diseases, whether physical,
22mental, or emotional, or other medical, physiological, or
23psychological conditions, including, but not limited to,
24hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, weight control clinics,
25nursing homes, homes for the aging or chronically ill,
26laboratories, and offices of surgeons, chiropractors, physical

 

 

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1therapists, physicians, dentists, and all specialists within
2these professions. "Healthcare facility" includes all waiting
3rooms, hallways, private rooms, semiprivate rooms, and wards
4within healthcare facilities.
5    "Place of employment" means any area under the control of a
6public or private employer that employees are required to
7enter, leave, or pass through during the course of employment,
8including, but not limited to entrances and exits to places of
9employment, including a minimum distance, as set forth in
10Section 70 of this Act, of 15 feet from entrances, exits,
11windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an
12enclosed area where smoking is prohibited; offices and work
13areas; restrooms; conference and classrooms; break rooms and
14cafeterias; and other common areas. A private residence or
15home-based business, unless used to provide licensed child
16care, foster care, adult care, or other similar social service
17care on the premises, is not a "place of employment", nor are
18enclosed laboratories, not open to the public, in an accredited
19university or government facility where the activity of smoking
20is exclusively conducted for the purpose of medical or
21scientific health-related research. Rulemaking authority to
22implement this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, if
23any, is conditioned on the rules being adopted in accordance
24with all provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure
25Act and all rules and procedures of the Joint Committee on
26Administrative Rules; any purported rule not so adopted, for

 

 

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1whatever reason, is unauthorized.
2    "Private club" means a not-for-profit association that (1)
3has been in active and continuous existence for at least 3
4years prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
595th General Assembly, whether incorporated or not, (2) is the
6owner, lessee, or occupant of a building or portion thereof
7used exclusively for club purposes at all times, (3) is
8operated solely for a recreational, fraternal, social,
9patriotic, political, benevolent, or athletic purpose, but not
10for pecuniary gain, and (4) only sells alcoholic beverages
11incidental to its operation. For purposes of this definition,
12"private club" means an organization that is managed by a board
13of directors, executive committee, or similar body chosen by
14the members at an annual meeting, has established bylaws, a
15constitution, or both to govern its activities, and has been
16granted an exemption from the payment of federal income tax as
17a club under 26 U.S.C. 501.
18    "Private residence" means the part of a structure used as a
19dwelling, including, without limitation: a private home,
20townhouse, condominium, apartment, mobile home, vacation home,
21cabin, or cottage. For the purposes of this definition, a
22hotel, motel, inn, resort, lodge, bed and breakfast or other
23similar public accommodation, hospital, nursing home, or
24assisted living facility shall not be considered a private
25residence.
26    "Public place" means that portion of any building or

 

 

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1vehicle used by and open to the public, regardless of whether
2the building or vehicle is owned in whole or in part by private
3persons or entities, the State of Illinois, or any other public
4entity and regardless of whether a fee is charged for
5admission, including a minimum distance, as set forth in
6Section 70 of this Act, of 15 feet from entrances, exits,
7windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an
8enclosed area where smoking is prohibited. A "public place"
9does not include a private residence unless the private
10residence is used to provide licensed child care, foster care,
11or other similar social service care on the premises. A "public
12place" includes, but is not limited to, hospitals, restaurants,
13retail stores, offices, commercial establishments, elevators,
14indoor theaters, libraries, museums, concert halls, public
15conveyances, educational facilities, nursing homes,
16auditoriums, enclosed or partially enclosed sports arenas,
17meeting rooms, schools, exhibition halls, convention
18facilities, polling places, private clubs, gaming facilities,
19all government owned vehicles and facilities, including
20buildings and vehicles owned, leased, or operated by the State
21or State subcontract, healthcare facilities or clinics,
22enclosed shopping centers, retail service establishments,
23financial institutions, educational facilities, ticket areas,
24public hearing facilities, public restrooms, waiting areas,
25lobbies, bars, taverns, bowling alleys, skating rinks,
26reception areas, and no less than 75% of the sleeping quarters

 

 

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1within a hotel, motel, resort, inn, lodge, bed and breakfast,
2or other similar public accommodation that are rented to
3guests, but excludes private residences.
4    "Restaurant" means (i) an eating establishment, including,
5but not limited to, coffee shops, cafeterias, sandwich stands,
6and private and public school cafeterias, that gives or offers
7for sale food to the public, guests, or employees, and (ii) a
8kitchen or catering facility in which food is prepared on the
9premises for serving elsewhere. "Restaurant" includes a bar
10area within the restaurant.
11    "Retail tobacco store" means a retail establishment that
12derives more than 80% of its gross revenue from the sale of
13loose tobacco, plants, or herbs and cigars, cigarettes, pipes,
14and other smoking devices for burning tobacco and related
15smoking accessories and in which the sale of other products is
16merely incidental. "Retail tobacco store" includes an enclosed
17workplace that manufactures, imports, or distributes tobacco
18or tobacco products, when, as a necessary and integral part of
19the process of making, manufacturing, importing, or
20distributing a tobacco product for the eventual retail sale of
21that tobacco or tobacco product, tobacco is heated, burned, or
22smoked, or a lighted tobacco product is tested, provided that
23the involved business entity: (1) maintains a specially
24designated area or areas within the workplace for the purpose
25of the heating, burning, smoking, or lighting activities, and
26does not create a facility that permits smoking throughout; (2)

 

 

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1satisfies the 80% requirement related to gross sales; and (3)
2delivers tobacco products to consumers, retail establishments,
3or other wholesale establishments as part of its business.
4"Retail tobacco store" does not include a tobacco department or
5section of a larger commercial establishment or any
6establishment with any type of liquor, food, or restaurant
7license. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act
8of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the
9rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of the
10Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and
11procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; any
12purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is
13unauthorized.
14    "Smoke" or "smoking" means the carrying, smoking, burning,
15inhaling, or exhaling of any kind of lighted pipe, cigar,
16cigarette, hookah, weed, herbs, or any other lighted smoking
17equipment. "Smoke" or "smoking" does not include smoking that
18is associated with a native recognized religious ceremony,
19ritual, or activity by American Indians that is in accordance
20with the federal American Indian Religious Freedom Act, 42
21U.S.C. 1996 and 1996a.
22    "State agency" has the meaning formerly ascribed to it in
23subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Illinois Purchasing Act (now
24repealed).
25    "Unit of local government" has the meaning ascribed to it
26in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of

 

 

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11970.
2(Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09; 96-797,
3eff. 1-1-10.)
 
4    (410 ILCS 82/35)
5    Sec. 35. Exemptions. Notwithstanding any other provision
6of this Act, smoking is allowed in the following areas:
7        (1) Private residences or dwelling places, except when
8    used as a child care, adult day care, or healthcare
9    facility or any other home-based business open to the
10    public.
11        (2) Retail tobacco stores as defined in Section 10 of
12    this Act in operation prior to the effective date of this
13    amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly. The retail
14    tobacco store shall annually file with the Department by
15    January 31st an affidavit stating the percentage of its
16    gross income during the prior calendar year that was
17    derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs
18    and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other smoking devices for
19    smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories. Any
20    retail tobacco store that begins operation after the
21    effective date of this amendatory Act may only qualify for
22    an exemption if located in a freestanding structure
23    occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business
24    does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is
25    prohibited.

 

 

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1        (3) (Blank).
2        (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to
3    guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that
4    all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and
5    smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking
6    rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more
7    than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel
8    may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The
9    status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be
10    changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking
11    rooms.
12        (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the
13    definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this
14    Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act
15    of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the
16    rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of
17    the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and
18    procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
19    any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is
20    unauthorized.
21        (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities
22    operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of
23    Veterans' Affairs or licensed under the Nursing Home Care
24    Act that are accessible only to residents who are smokers
25    and have requested in writing to have access to the common
26    smoking room where smoking is permitted and the smoke shall

 

 

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1    not infiltrate other areas of the long-term care facility.
2    Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of
3    the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the
4    rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of
5    the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and
6    procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
7    any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is
8    unauthorized.
9        (7) A private club.
10(Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09;
1196-1357, eff. 1-1-11.)