Senate Bill sb0044Ac1

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.
    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A

    By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senator Diaz de
    la Portilla




    315-2649-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Clean Indoor Air

  3         Act; implementing s. 20, Art. X of the State

  4         Constitution; reenacting s. 386.201, F.S.,

  5         relating to a short title; amending s. 386.202,

  6         F.S.; providing legislative intent and

  7         findings; amending s. 386.203, F.S.; providing

  8         definitions; amending s. 386.204, F.S.;

  9         prohibiting smoking in certain places; creating

10         s. 386.2045, F.S.; establishing specific

11         exceptions where smoking is permitted; amending

12         s. 386.205, F.S.; providing for designated

13         smoking rooms; providing certain exceptions;

14         requiring state agencies to adopt rules;

15         amending s. 386.206, F.S.; providing

16         requirements for the posting of signs in rooms

17         designated as smoking rooms; amending s.

18         386.207, F.S.; providing for enforcement of the

19         act by the Department of Business and

20         Professional Regulation and the Department of

21         Health; providing penalties; providing for the

22         use of moneys collected as fines under the act;

23         amending s. 386.208, F.S.; providing penalties;

24         reenacting s. 386.209, F.S., relating to

25         preemption by the state of the regulation of

26         smoking; amending s. 386.211, F.S.; providing

27         for announcements at certain facilities;

28         amending s. 386.212, F.S.; prohibiting smoking

29         near school property; creating s. 386.2125,

30         F.S.; requiring the Department of Health and

31         the Department of Business and Professional

                                  1

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         Regulation to adopt rules; providing for

 2         construction of the act in pari materia with

 3         laws enacted during the Regular Session of the

 4         Legislature; providing for severability;

 5         providing an effective date.

 6  

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

 8  

 9         Section 1.  Section 386.201, Florida Statutes, is

10  reenacted to read:

11         386.201  Short title.--This part may be cited as the

12  "Florida Clean Indoor Air Act."

13         Section 2.  Section 386.202, Florida Statutes, is

14  amended to read:

15         386.202  Legislative intent.--The purpose of this part

16  is to protect people from the public health hazards of

17  second-hand, comfort, and environment by creating areas in

18  public places and at public meetings that are reasonably free

19  from tobacco smoke and to implement the Florida health

20  initiative in s. 20, Art. X of the State Constitution by

21  providing a uniform statewide maximum code. It is the intent

22  of the Legislature to not inhibit, or otherwise obstruct,

23  smoking cessation programs, medical research, or scientific

24  research in this state. The Legislature finds that tobacco

25  smoking that is integral to a smoking cessation program,

26  medical research, or scientific research does not present a

27  credible public health hazard from second-hand smoke. This

28  part shall not be interpreted to require the designation of

29  smoking areas. However, it is the intent of the Legislature to

30  discourage the designation of any area within a government

31  building as a smoking area.

                                  2

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         Section 3.  Section 386.203, Florida Statutes, is

 2  amended to read:

 3         386.203  Definitions.--As used in this part, the term:

 4         (1)  "Commercial use of a private residence" means any

 5  time during which the owner, lessee, or other person occupying

 6  or controlling the use of a private residence is furnishing in

 7  the private residence, or causing or allowing to be furnished

 8  in the private residence, child care, adult care, or health

 9  care, or any combination thereof, and receiving or expecting

10  to receive compensation therefor.

11         (2)  "Common area" means a hallway, corridor, lobby,

12  aisle, water fountain area, restroom, stairwell, entryway, or

13  conference room in a public place.

14         (3)  "Department" means the Department of Health.

15         (4)  "Designated smoking guest rooms at public lodging

16  establishments" means the sleeping rooms and directly

17  associated private areas, such as bathrooms, living rooms, and

18  kitchen areas, if any, rented to guests for their exclusive

19  transient occupancy in public lodging establishments,

20  including hotels, motels, resort condominiums, transient

21  apartments, transient lodging establishments, rooming houses,

22  boarding houses, resort dwellings, bed and breakfast inns, and

23  the like and designated by the person or persons having

24  management authority over such public lodging establishment as

25  rooms in which smoking may be permitted.

26         (5)  "Enclosed indoor workplace" means a workplace that

27  is predominantly or totally bounded on all sides and above by

28  physical barriers. The term does not include a workplace

29  without physical barriers of any kind from above; a workplace

30  that is totally or partially bounded from above with at least

31  25 percent of the contiguous surface area of the sides without

                                  3

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1  a physical barrier; or a workplace that is bounded on all

 2  sides and above by physical barriers consisting of no more

 3  than 50 percent of the total bounded surface area of the

 4  workplace.

 5         (6)  "Essential services" means those services that are

 6  essential to the maintenance of any enclosed indoor room,

 7  regardless of whether the room is a workplace, including, but

 8  not limited to, janitorial services, repairs, or renovations.

 9         (7)  "Government building" means a building or portion

10  of a building owned by or leased to the state or a political

11  subdivision of the state and used for governmental purposes.

12         (8)  "Physical barrier" includes an uncovered opening,

13  a screened or otherwise partially covered opening, or an open

14  or closed window, jalousie, or door.

15         (9)(1)  "Public place" means the following enclosed,

16  indoor areas used by the general public:

17         (a)  Government buildings;

18         (b)  Public means of mass transportation and their

19  associated terminals not subject to federal smoking

20  regulation;

21         (c)  Elevators;

22         (d)  Hospitals;

23         (e)  Nursing homes;

24         (f)  Educational facilities;

25         (g)  Public school buses;

26         (h)  Libraries;

27         (i)  Courtrooms;

28         (j)  Jury waiting and deliberation rooms;

29         (k)  Museums;

30         (l)  Theaters;

31         (m)  Auditoriums;

                                  4

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         (n)  Arenas;

 2         (o)  Recreational facilities;

 3         (p)  Restaurants;

 4         (q)  Retail stores, except a retail store the primary

 5  business of which is the sale of tobacco or tobacco related

 6  products;

 7         (r)  Grocery stores;

 8         (s)  Buildings that contain an enclosed indoor

 9  workplace Places of employment;

10         (t)  Health care facilities;

11         (u)  Day care centers; and

12         (v)  Common areas of retirement homes and condominiums.

13         (2)  "Government building" means any building or any

14  portion of any building owned by or leased to the state or any

15  political subdivision thereof and used for governmental

16  purposes.

17         (10)(3)  "Public meeting" means all meetings open to

18  the public, including meetings of homeowner, condominium, or

19  renter or tenant associations unless such meetings are held in

20  a private residence.

21         (11)  "Second-hand smoke" means smoke emitted from

22  lighted, smoldering, or burning tobacco when the smoker is not

23  inhaling; smoke emitted at the mouthpiece during puff drawing;

24  and smoke exhaled by the smoker.

25         (12)(4)  "Smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning,

26  carrying, or possessing a lighted tobacco product, including

27  cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco possession of a lighted

28  cigarette, lighted cigar, lighted pipe, or any other lighted

29  tobacco product.

30         (13)  "Work" means performing an employment or

31  employment-type service for, or at the request of, another

                                  5

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1  person or a public or private entity, regardless of whether

 2  the employment or employment-type service is performed for

 3  compensation or on a full-time or part-time basis, whether

 4  legally or not. The term includes employment or

 5  employment-type service performed by an employee, independent

 6  contractor, agent, partner, proprietor, manager, officer,

 7  director, apprentice, trainee, associate, servant, volunteer,

 8  or similar person.  The term does not include noncommercial

 9  activities performed by members of a membership association.

10         (14)  "Workplace" means a room where one or more

11  persons perform work.  This section applies to all such

12  workplaces without regard to whether work is occurring at any

13  given time.  The term does not include any facility owned or

14  leased by and used exclusively for noncommercial activities

15  performed by the members and guests of a membership

16  association, including social gatherings, meetings, dining,

17  and dances, if no person or persons are engaged in work as

18  defined in subsection (13).  Each facility in which tobacco

19  smoking is permitted during the activities of a membership

20  association must conspicuously post, or cause to be posted, in

21  the facility signs stating that smoking is permitted.

22         (15)  "Membership association" means a charitable,

23  nonprofit, or veterans' organization that holds a current

24  exemption under s. 501(c)(3), s. 501(c)(4), s. 501(c)(7), s.

25  501(c)(8), s. 501(c)(10), s. 501(c)(19), or s. 501(d) of the

26  Internal Revenue Code.

27         (5)  "Smoking area" means any designated area meeting

28  the requirements of ss. 386.205 and 386.206.

29         (6)  "Common area" means any hallway, corridor, lobby,

30  aisle, water fountain area, restroom, stairwell, entryway, or

31  conference room in any public place.

                                  6

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         (7)  "Department" means the Department of Health.

 2         (8)  "Division" means the Division of Hotels and

 3  Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional

 4  Regulation.

 5         Section 4.  Section 386.204, Florida Statutes, is

 6  amended to read:

 7         386.204  Prohibition.--

 8         (1)  ENCLOSED INDOOR WORKPLACES.--A person may not

 9  smoke in an enclosed indoor workplace, except as otherwise

10  provided in s. 386.2045.

11         (2)  PUBLIC PLACES.--A person may not smoke in a public

12  place or at a public meeting except as provided in this part

13  in designated smoking areas. These prohibitions do not apply

14  in cases in which an entire room or hall is used for a private

15  function and seating arrangements are under the control of the

16  sponsor of the function and not of the proprietor or person in

17  charge of the room or hall.

18         Section 5.  Section 386.2045, Florida Statutes, is

19  created to read:

20         386.2045  Enclosed indoor workplaces; specific

21  exceptions.--Notwithstanding s. 386.204(1), tobacco smoking

22  may be permitted in each of the following places:

23         (1)  PRIVATE RESIDENCE.--A private residence whenever

24  it is not being used commercially to provide child care, adult

25  care, or health care, or any combination thereof.

26         (2)  RETAIL TOBACCO SHOP.--Any enclosed indoor

27  workplace dedicated to or predominantly for the retail sale of

28  tobacco, tobacco products, and accessories for such products,

29  in which the sale of other products or services is merely

30  incidental. Any enclosed indoor workplace of a business that

31  manufactures, imports, or distributes tobacco products or of a

                                  7

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1  tobacco leaf dealer is a business dedicated to or

 2  predominantly for the retail sale of tobacco and tobacco

 3  products when, as a necessary and integral part of the process

 4  of making, manufacturing, importing, or distributing a tobacco

 5  product for the eventual retail sale of such tobacco or

 6  tobacco product, tobacco is heated, burned, or smoked or a

 7  lighted tobacco product is tested.

 8         (3)  DESIGNATED SMOKING GUEST ROOM.--A designated

 9  smoking guest room at a public lodging establishment.

10         (4)  STAND-ALONE BAR.--Any place of business that

11  during all times of operation is devoted predominantly or

12  totally to serving alcoholic beverages, intoxicating

13  beverages, or intoxicating liquors, or any combination

14  thereof, for consumption on the licensed premises; in which

15  the serving of food, if any, is merely incidental to the

16  consumption of any such beverage; and the licensed premises is

17  not located within, and does not share any common entryway or

18  common indoor area with, any other enclosed indoor workplace,

19  including any business for which the sale of food or any other

20  product or service is more than an incidental source of gross

21  revenue.   A business must not derive more than 10 percent of

22  its gross revenue from the sale of food for consumption on the

23  licensed premises.

24         (5)  SMOKING-CESSATION PROGRAM, MEDICAL RESEARCH, OR

25  SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.--Any enclosed indoor workplace or public

26  place, to the extent that tobacco smoking is an integral part

27  of a smoking-cessation program, medical research, or

28  scientific research. Each room in which tobacco smoking is

29  permitted must post, or conspicuously cause to be posted, a

30  sign stating that tobacco smoking is permitted as part of a

31  

                                  8

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1  smoking-cessation program, medical research, or scientific

 2  research.

 3         (6)  ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.--Any enclosed indoor

 4  workplace or public place, to the extent that tobacco smoking

 5  is a part of a theatrical, commercial advertising, music

 6  video, television, or motion picture performance. Each room in

 7  which tobacco smoking is permitted as part of a performance

 8  must post or conspicuously cause to be posted, a sign stating

 9  that tobacco smoking is permitted as part of a performance.

10         Section 6.  Section 386.205, Florida Statutes, is

11  amended to read:

12         386.205  Designation of smoking rooms areas.--

13         (1)  A smoking room areas may be designated by the

14  person in charge of an airport in-transit lounge under the

15  authority and control of the Bureau of Customs and Border

16  Protection of the United States Department of Homeland

17  Security a public place. A smoking room may be designated in

18  an airport in-transit lounge under the authority and control

19  of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of the United

20  States Department of Homeland Security. A smoking room may not

21  be designated in an elevator, restroom, or any common area as

22  defined in s. 386.203.  Each designated smoking room must

23  conform to the following requirements:

24         (a)  Work, other than essential services defined in s.

25  386.203, must not be performed in the room at any given time.

26         (b)  Tobacco smoking must not be permitted in the room

27  while any essential services are being performed in the room.

28         (c)  Each smoking room must be enclosed by physical

29  barriers that are impenetrable by second-hand tobacco smoke

30  and prevent the escape of second-hand tobacco smoke into a

31  common area or an enclosed indoor workplace.

                                  9

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         (d)  Each designated smoking room must exhaust tobacco

 2  smoke directly to the outside and away from air intake ducts,

 3  and be maintained under negative pressure, with respect to

 4  surrounding spaces, sufficient to contain tobacco smoke within

 5  the designated room.

 6         (e)  Each smoking room must conspicuously post, or

 7  cause to be posted, in the room and at the entrance to the

 8  room signs stating that smoking is permitted. If a smoking

 9  area is designated, existing physical barriers and ventilation

10  systems shall be used to minimize smoke in adjacent nonsmoking

11  areas. This provision shall not be construed to require fixed

12  structural or other physical modifications in providing these

13  areas or to require operation of any existing heating,

14  ventilating, and air-conditioning system (HVAC system) in any

15  manner which decreases its energy efficiency or increases its

16  electrical demand, or both, nor shall this provision be

17  construed to require installation of new or additional HVAC

18  systems.

19         (2)(a)  A smoking area may not be designated in an

20  elevator, school bus, public means of mass transportation

21  subject only to state smoking regulation, restroom, hospital,

22  doctor's or dentist's waiting room, jury, deliberation room,

23  county health department, day care center, school or other

24  educational facility, or any common area as defined in s.

25  386.203. However, a patient's room in a hospital, nursing

26  home, or other health care facility may be designated as a

27  smoking area if such designation is ordered by the attending

28  physician and agreed to by all patients assigned to that room.

29         (b)  Notwithstanding anything in this part to the

30  contrary, no more than one-half of the rooms in any health

31  care facility may be designated as smoking areas.

                                  10

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         (3)  In a workplace where there are smokers and

 2  nonsmokers, employers shall develop, implement, and post a

 3  policy regarding designation of smoking and nonsmoking areas.

 4  Such a policy shall take into consideration the proportion of

 5  smokers and nonsmokers.  Employers who make reasonable efforts

 6  to develop, implement, and post such a policy shall be deemed

 7  in compliance. An entire area may be designated as a smoking

 8  area if all workers routinely assigned to work in that area at

 9  the same time agree. With respect to the square footage in any

10  public place as described in subsection (4), this square

11  footage shall not include private office work space which is

12  not a common area as defined in s. 386.203(6) and which is

13  ordinarily inaccessible to the public.

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

15  footage in any public place within a single enclosed indoor

16  area used for a common purpose shall be reserved and

17  designated as a smoking area.

18         (b)  The square footage limitation set forth in

19  paragraph (a) shall not apply to any restaurant subject to

20  this part. With respect to such restaurants:

21         1.  No more than 50 percent of the seats existing in a

22  restaurant's dining room at any time shall be located in an

23  area designated as a smoking area.

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

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

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

27         (3)(5)  A smoking room area may not contain common

28  areas that which are expected to be used by the public.

29         (4)(6)  Each state agency may adopt rules for

30  administering this section which take into consideration the

31  provisions of this part.

                                  11

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         Section 7.  Section 386.206, Florida Statutes, is

 2  amended to read:

 3         386.206  Posting of signs.--The person in charge of a

 4  public place shall conspicuously post, or cause to be posted,

 5  in any public place area designated as a smoking area signs

 6  stating that smoking is not permitted in the public place such

 7  area.  Each sign posted under pursuant to this section must

 8  shall have letters of reasonable size which can be easily

 9  read.  The color, design, and precise place of posting of

10  these such signs shall be left to the discretion of the person

11  in charge of the premises.  In order to increase public

12  awareness, the person in charge of a public place may, at his

13  or her discretion, also post "NO SMOKING EXCEPT IN DESIGNATED

14  AREAS" signs as appropriate.

15         Section 8.  Section 386.207, Florida Statutes, is

16  amended to read:

17         386.207  Administration; enforcement; civil penalties;

18  exceptions exemptions.--

19         (1)  The department and the Department of Business and

20  Professional Regulation or the division shall enforce this

21  part ss. 386.205 and 386.206 and to implement such enforcement

22  shall adopt, in consultation with the Department of

23  Agriculture and Consumer Services and the State Fire Marshal,

24  rules specifying procedures to be followed by enforcement

25  personnel in investigating complaints and notifying alleged

26  violators, rules defining types of cases for which exceptions

27  exemptions may be granted, and rules specifying procedures by

28  which appeals may be taken by aggrieved parties.

29         (2)  Public agencies responsible for the management and

30  maintenance of government buildings shall report observed

31  violations to the department and the Department of Business

                                  12

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1  and Professional Regulation or division.  The State Fire

 2  Marshal shall report to the department and the Department of

 3  Business and Professional Regulation or division observed

 4  violations of this part ss. 386.205 and 386.206 found during

 5  its periodic inspections conducted under pursuant to its

 6  regulatory authority.  The department and the Department of

 7  Business and Professional Regulation or the division, upon

 8  notification of observed violations of this part ss. 386.205

 9  and 386.206, shall issue to the proprietor or other person in

10  charge of such public place or enclosed indoor workplace a

11  notice to comply with this part ss. 386.205 and 386.206.  If

12  the such person fails to comply within 30 days after receipt

13  of the such notice, the department and the Department of

14  Business and Professional Regulation or the division shall

15  assess a civil penalty against the person of not less than

16  $250 and him or her not to exceed $750 $100 for the first

17  violation and not less than $500 and not to exceed $2,000 $500

18  for each subsequent violation. The imposition of the such fine

19  must shall be in accordance with the provisions of chapter

20  120.  If a person refuses to comply with this part ss. 386.205

21  and 386.206, after having been assessed such penalty, the

22  department and the Department of Business and Professional

23  Regulation or the division may file a complaint in the circuit

24  court of the county in which the such public place or enclosed

25  indoor workplace is located to require compliance.

26         (3)  A person may request an exemption from ss. 386.205

27  and 386.206 by applying to the department or the division.

28  The department or the division may grant exemptions on a

29  case-by-case basis where it determines that substantial good

30  faith efforts have been made to comply or that emergency or

31  extraordinary circumstances exist.

                                  13

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         (3)(4)  All fine moneys collected pursuant to this

 2  section shall be used by the department for children's medical

 3  services programs pursuant to the provisions of part I of

 4  chapter 391.

 5         Section 9.  Section 386.208, Florida Statutes, is

 6  amended to read:

 7         386.208  Penalties.--Any person who violates s. 386.204

 8  commits a noncriminal violation as defined provided for in s.

 9  775.08(3), punishable by a fine of not more than $100 for the

10  first violation and not more than $500 for each subsequent

11  violation.  Jurisdiction shall be with the appropriate county

12  court.

13         Section 10.  Section 386.209, Florida Statutes, is

14  reenacted to read:

15         386.209  Regulation of smoking preempted to

16  state.--This part expressly preempts regulation of smoking to

17  the state and supersedes any municipal or county ordinance on

18  the subject.

19         Section 11.  Section 386.211, Florida Statutes, is

20  amended to read:

21         386.211  Public announcements in mass transportation

22  terminals.--Announcements about the Florida Clean Indoor Air

23  Act shall be made regularly over public address systems in

24  terminals of public transportation carriers located in

25  metropolitan statistical areas with populations over 230,000

26  according to the latest census.  These announcements shall be

27  made at least every 30 minutes and shall be made in

28  appropriate languages.  Each announcement must shall include a

29  statement to the effect that Florida is a clean indoor air

30  state and that smoking is not allowed except as provided in

31  this part only in designated areas.

                                  14

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1         Section 12.  Section 386.212, Florida Statutes, is

 2  amended to read:

 3         386.212  Smoking prohibited near school property;

 4  penalty.--

 5         (1)  It is unlawful for any person under 18 years of

 6  age to smoke tobacco in, on, or within 1,000 feet of the real

 7  property comprising a public or private elementary, middle, or

 8  secondary school between the hours of 6 a.m. and midnight.

 9  This section does shall not apply to any person occupying a

10  moving vehicle or within a private residence.

11         (2)  A law enforcement officer may issue a citation in

12  such form as prescribed by a county or municipality to any

13  person violating the provisions of this section.  Any such

14  citation must contain:

15         (a)  The date and time of issuance.

16         (b)  The name and address of the person cited.

17         (c)  The date and time the civil infraction was

18  committed.

19         (d)  The statute violated.

20         (e)  The facts constituting the violation.

21         (f)  The name and authority of the law enforcement

22  officer.

23         (g)  The procedure for the person to follow to pay the

24  civil penalty, to contest the citation, or to appear in court.

25         (h)  The applicable civil penalty if the person elects

26  not to contest the citation.

27         (i)  The applicable civil penalty if the person elects

28  to contest the citation.

29         (3)  Any person issued a citation pursuant to this

30  section shall be deemed to be charged with a civil infraction

31  punishable by a maximum civil penalty not to exceed $25, or 50

                                  15

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1  hours of community service or, where available, successful

 2  completion of a school-approved anti-tobacco "alternative to

 3  suspension" program.

 4         (4)  Any person who fails to comply with the directions

 5  on the citation shall be deemed to waive his or her right to

 6  contest the citation and an order to show cause may be issued

 7  by the court.

 8         Section 13.  Section 386.2125, Florida Statutes, is

 9  created to read:

10         386.2125  Rulemaking.--The department and the

11  Department of Business and Professional Regulation shall, in

12  consultation with the State Fire Marshal and the Department of

13  Agriculture and Consumer Services, have the authority to adopt

14  rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the

15  provisions of this part.

16         Section 14.  If any law that is amended by this act was

17  also amended by a law enacted at the 2003 Regular Session of

18  the Legislature, such laws shall be construed as if they had

19  been enacted during the same session of the Legislature, and

20  full effect should be given to each if that is possible.

21         Section 15.  If any provision of this act or its

22  application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the

23  invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of

24  the act that can be given effect without the invalid provision

25  or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are

26  declared severable.

27         Section 16.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

28  

29  

30  

31  

                                  16

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 44-A
    315-2649-03




 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                             SB 44-A

 3                                 

 4  Eliminates the provisions regarding restaurant patios and the
    ventilation system requirements.
 5  
    Eliminates the provisions regarding entryways and intakes.
 6  
    Provides incidental sale of food in stand-alone bars of up to
 7  10%.

 8  Modifies the penalty provisions for violations of the act by
    proprietors.
 9  
    Maintains the current penalties under the Clean Indoor Air Act
10  for persons who violate the act.

11  

12  

13  

14  

15  

16  

17  

18  

19  

20  

21  

22  

23  

24  

25  

26  

27  

28  

29  

30  

31  

                                  17

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.