House Bill 0845

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 845

        By Representative Casey






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Clean Indoor Air

  3         Act; amending s. 386.205, F.S.; reducing the

  4         percentage of seats required to be in an area

  5         designated as a smoking area in restaurants;

  6         repealing s. 386.203(1)(p), F.S., relating to

  7         the definition of the term "public place" to

  8         remove a definition of restaurants of a certain

  9         size; providing effective dates.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (4) of section 386.205, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         386.205  Designation of smoking areas.--

16         (4)(a)  No more than one-half of the total square

17  footage in any public place, except for any restaurant, within

18  a single enclosed indoor area used for a common purpose shall

19  be reserved and designated as a smoking area.

20         (b)  With respect to restaurants:

21         1.  Effective October 1, 2000, no more than 50 percent

22  of the seats existing in a restaurant's dining room at any

23  time shall be located in an area designated as a smoking area.

24  This square footage limitation provided for in this

25  subparagraph does not apply to restaurants as defined in s.

26  386.203(1)(p). However, such a restaurant must ensure that no

27  more than 50 percent of the seats existing in its dining room

28  at any time are located in an area designated as a smoking

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30         2.  Effective October 1, 2001, no more than 35 percent

31  of the seats in any restaurant dining room at any time shall

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 845

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  1  be located in an area designated as a smoking area. This

  2  square footage limitation does not apply to restaurants as

  3  defined in s. 386.203(1)(p). However, such a restaurant must

  4  ensure that no more than 65 percent of the seats existing in

  5  its dining room at any time are located in an area designated

  6  as a smoking area.

  7         Section 2.  Effective October 1, 2001, paragraph (p) of

  8  subsection (1) of section 386.203, Florida Statutes, is

  9  repealed.

10         Section 3.  Except as otherwise provided herein, this

11  act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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      Reduces the amount of seating for smoking areas in all
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