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CS/HB 769: Correctional Facilities/Tobacco

GENERAL BILL by Corrections ; Brooks ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Feeney ; Ziebarth ; Casey

Correctional Facilities/Tobacco; provides legislative intent; requires DOC & private vendors operating state correctional facilities to make smoking-cessation assistance available to inmates; prohibits inmate within said facility from using tobacco products in prohibited areas; prohibits employees or visitors from using tobacco products in prohibited areas; adds state correctional facilities to definition of public place, etc. Creates 386.213; amends 386.203.

Effective Date: Upon becoming law
Last Action: 5/1/1998 Senate - Died in Committee on Criminal Justice
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
2/24/1997 House • Prefiled
3/4/1997 House • Introduced -HJ 00092; Referred to Corrections (JC); Criminal Justice Appropriations -HJ 00134
3/5/1997 House • On Committee agenda-- Corrections (JC), 03/11/97, 10:00 am, 214C --Amendments adopted, bill temporarily deferred
3/31/1997 House • On Committee agenda-- Corrections (JC), 04/04/97, 8:00 am, 214C
4/4/1997 House • Comm. Action: CS by Corrections (JC) -HJ 00531
4/11/1997 House • CS read first time on 04/11/97 -HJ 00526; Now in Criminal Justice Appropriations -HJ 00531
4/16/1997 House • Withdrawn from Criminal Justice Appropriations -HJ 00574
4/17/1997 House • In Justice Council, pending ranking; Placed on Justice Council Calendar -HJ 00657
4/24/1997 House • Read second time -HJ 00865
4/28/1997 House • Temporarily postponed, on Third Reading -HJ 01117
5/2/1997 House • Carried over to 1998 Session pursuant to House Rule 96, Placed on Justice Council Calendar
3/3/1998 House • CARRIED OVER; Placed on Justice Council Calendar; Placed on third reading
4/14/1998 House • Temporarily postponed, on Third Reading -HJ 00579
4/15/1998 House • Read third time -HJ 00598; Amendment(s) adopted -HJ 00598; CS passed as amended; YEAS 111 NAYS 2 -HJ 00599
4/16/1998 Senate • In Messages
4/21/1998 Senate • Received, referred to Criminal Justice; Ways and Means -SJ 00752
5/1/1998 Senate • Died in Committee on Criminal Justice