Senate OKs bill to let community colleges ban smoking

Publication Date: 2006-07-12

• Author:Kerra L. Bolton
• Publication:Asheville Citizen-Times

North Carolina community colleges could elect to be nonsmoking campuses, if a bill that passed the state Senate becomes law.

In a 47-2 vote, the Senate voted to allow campuses to impose smoking restrictions. The bill is now in the state House for consideration.

Rep. Susan Fisher, D-Buncombe, sponsored the bill in the House.

“I think it adds another positive layer to the nonsmoking policy we started in legislative buildings during the short session,” Fisher said.