Smoking ban up in House today
Among all the fun of crossover - in which dozens, nay, hundreds of bills are given various level of approval in a short amount of time – the bill in the first position on the House calendar today will grab some attention.
H2, which would ban smoking in restaurants and bars, has come back from the Senate and Rep. Hugh Holliman says he'll urge his colleagues to accept the Senate version of the bill. Even though the measure falls short of the more sweeping "workplace ban" that Holliman had originally pushed, the Lexington Democrat said that the Senate version of the bill is a "major step" and about as much as he can hope for politically this year.
"We'll take the gains we got and come back another day," Holliman said.
My read is that passage is not a slam dunk. But if the measure fails, it would go to a conference committee where the bill could be re-worked some and brought back to the floor.
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I pray this further infringement upon smoker's rights does not pass - I've invested heavily in companies that manufacture artificial larynxes; portable oxygen equipment; drugs used to fight emphysema, throat, and lung cancer; and the radiation and surgical equipment used to treat lung and throat cancer patients in clinics and hospitals -
Posted on May 13, 2009 1:20 PM