HB1653: Smoking; guilty of a misdemeanor if in certain proximity to gas pumps.

Chief Patron

Ward Armstrong (D-10)
Martinsville, VA
Served: 1992–

Progress

	Introduced
	Passed Committee
	Passed House
	Passed Senate
	Signed by Governor
	Became Law

Status

04/04/2007: enacted

View Entire History

12/01/2006 Committee
12/01/2006 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 073016216
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 (HB1653)
01/30/2007 Read first time
01/31/2007 Read second time
01/31/2007 Passed by temporarily
01/31/2007 Amendment by Delegate Armstrong agreed to
01/31/2007 Engrossed by House as amended HB1653E
01/31/2007 Printed as engrossed 073016216-E
02/01/2007 Read third time and passed House (81-Y 16-N)
02/01/2007 Communicated to Senate
02/02/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed
02/02/2007 Referred to Committee on Transportation
02/06/2007 Impact statement from DPB (HB1653E)
02/08/2007 Rereferred from Transportation (13-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/08/2007 Rereferred to Courts of Justice
02/19/2007 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2007 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
02/20/2007 Motion to reconsider Passed by for the day agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
02/20/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2007 Passed by for the day
02/21/2007 Read third time
02/21/2007 Reading of amendments waived
02/21/2007 Committee amendments agreed to
02/21/2007 Engrossed by Senate as amended
02/21/2007 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
02/21/2007 VOTE: (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/21/2007 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
02/21/2007 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
02/21/2007 VOTE: (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/22/2007 Placed on Calendar
02/22/2007 Passed by temporarily
02/22/2007 Senate amendments agreed to by House (87-Y 10-N)
02/22/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (87-Y 10-N) (see vote tally)
03/08/2007 Enrolled
03/08/2007 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1653ER)
03/08/2007 Signed by Speaker
03/11/2007 Signed by President
03/26/2007 Governor's recommendation received by House
04/03/2007 Placed on Calendar
04/04/2007 Enacted, Chapter (effective 7/1/07)
04/04/2007 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (93-Y 6-N)
04/04/2007 VOTE: ADOPTION (93-Y 6-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
04/04/2007 G Governor's recommendation adopted
04/04/2007 Reenrolled
04/04/2007 Reenrolled bill text (HB1653ER2)
04/04/2007 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
04/04/2007 Signed by President as reenrolled
04/04/2007 Enacted, Chapter 848 (effective 7/1/07)
04/11/2007 G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0848)

Summary

Smoking in proximity to gas pumps; penalty. Provides that any person who smokes or uses an open flame within 25 feet of a pump used to fuel motor vehicles is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. View Full Text »

Comments

Jason See writes:

Nice....was wondering about this just the other day as I was filling up! Hope it passes...people aren't just risking their own lives when they light up at the pumps.

Posted 18 months ago. #

Cory Capron writes:

Now this is a smart anti-smoking bill. I hate to even call it that. It's just common sense that nobody should have an open flame that close to a gas pump. Can anyone give me a reason this is a bad idea?

Posted 17 months ago. #

James writes:

Yeah this sounds like a good idea but did a gas station blow up recently? I didn't know this was an epidemic; smoking while pumping gas. I'm glad to hear that Del. Armstrong fixed all of VA's real problems before tackling an issue as important as this. I clicked his name and judging from his other legislation he's all about solving Virginias real issues.

A lot of Time, a lot of effort and I'm sure a whole lot of money is going to be wasted getting this redundant bill passed. Money wasted on crap like this is money that could be used for transportation instead of raising our taxes.

Posted 16 months ago. #