HB1652: Smoking; misdemeanor if in certain proximity to medical oxygen source in health care facility.
Chief Patron
Del.
Ward Armstrong (D-10)
Ward Armstrong
(D-10)
Martinsville, VA
Served: 1992–
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Status
03/19/2007: signed by governor
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- 12/01/2006 Committee
- 12/01/2006 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 073028216
- 12/01/2006 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/11/2007 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 01/15/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB1652)
- 01/24/2007 Read first time
- 01/25/2007 Read second time
- 01/25/2007 Passed by for the day
- 01/26/2007 Passed by for the day
- 01/29/2007 Passed by for the day
- 01/30/2007 Read second time
- 01/30/2007 Amendment by Delegate Armstrong agreed to
- 01/30/2007 Engrossed by House as amended HB1652E
- 01/30/2007 Printed as engrossed 073028216-E
- 01/30/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB1652E)
- 01/31/2007 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2007 Communicated to Senate
- 02/01/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/01/2007 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/09/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2007 VOTE: (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/12/2007 Read third time
- 02/12/2007 Reading of amendments waived
- 02/12/2007 Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/12/2007 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/12/2007 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
- 02/13/2007 Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/2007 Senate amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB1652ER)
- 02/21/2007 Enrolled
- 02/21/2007 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1652ER)
- 02/21/2007 Signed by Speaker
- 02/22/2007 Signed by President
- 03/19/2007 G Approved by Governor-Chapter 430 (effective 7/1/07)
- 03/27/2007 G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430)
Summary
Smoking in proximity to hospital oxygen source; penalty. Provides
that any person who smokes or uses an open flame within 25 feet of an oxygen
source in a health care facility when the area is posted as a non-smoking area
is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. View Full Text »
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