Protect Local Control

Ensuring Community Rights
To Pass Smokefree Ordinances
 

State Status

No Preemption

Legislative Summary

H3918 - (preemption) - An Act to Provide That A Local Government May Not Enact An Ordinance That Prohibits Smoking In A Restaurant - Died

This bill adds a specific preemption clause stating that a local government may not enact an ordinance that prohibits smoking in a restaurant. Currently, there is a ruling of implied preemption from the Attorney General in 1990.

  • Preemptive Action

    Yes

  • Anti-Preemptive Clause

    No

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