Protect Local Control

Ensuring Community Rights
To Pass Smokefree Ordinances
 

State Status

Any Preemption

Legislative Summary

SB347 / HB0263-(preemption repeal)-An Act relative to tobacco products-Died

This bill partially repeals preemption by allowing cities and counties with a metropolitan form of government to enact smoking regulations in public buildings and restaurants.

  • Preemptive Action

    No (TN already preempted)

  • Anti-Preemptive Clause

    YES

EXEMPTIONS: Local communities are not allowed to enact smoking regulations in establishments where forty percent or less of their annual revenue is derived from food sales.

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