Protect Local Control

Ensuring Community Rights
To Pass Smokefree Ordinances
 

State Status

Any Preemption

Legislative Summary

SB898 - (partial preemption repeal) - An Act prohibiting preemption of ordinances - Carried over to 2010 - Session Adjourned

This bill permits a county of the second class (Allegheny County) to enforce smoking regulations enacted by the county, and states that any ordinances relating to smoking and determined by a court to be preempted by an act of the General Assembly prior to June 1, 2008, is deemed valid and lawfully enacted.

  • Preemptive Action

    No

  • Anti-Preemptive Clause

    YES

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