House votes to ban smoking in casinos

Publication Date: 2007-04-28

• Author:ED SEALOVER
• Publication:Colorado Springs (CO) Gazette

Beginning Jan. 1, Colorado’s casinos likely will be home to one less vice.

The House voted Thursday to ban smoking in casinos beginning at 8 a.m. on the first day of 2008, joining the Senate in a compromise between the July 1, 2007, snuff-out date proposed by the House and the July 1, 2008, deadline recommended by the upper chamber.

HB1269 now heads to Gov. Bill Ritter, who is still considering what to do, according to his spokesman, Evan Dreyer.

But many who follow the issue say they will be shocked if the first-year Democratic governor does not sign the measure in the next two weeks.