Bill > S264

Introduced Session

This bill amends the "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act," P.L.2005, c.383 (C.26:3D-55 et seq.), to prohibit smoking in casinos and casino simulcasting facilities. Current law prohibits smoking in most indoor public places and workplaces, with certain exceptions, including indoor public places and workplaces which are within the perimeter of casinos and casino simulcasting facilities and accessible to the public for wagering. This bill would eliminate these exceptions from the smoking ban. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that casino workers are at greater risk for lung and heart disease because of secondhand smoke, and a study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found that the air in casinos can have up to 50 times more cancer-causing particles than the air on rush-hour highways. This bill would protect all workers in New Jersey from the hazards of second hand smoke by requiring that casinos and casino simulcasting facilities be smoke-free workplaces.

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Brian Stack (D)*,  Shirley Turner (D)*,  Joe Vitale (D)*,  Jim Beach (D),  Jon Bramnick (R),  Tony Bucco (R),  Renee Burgess (D),  Richard Codey (D),  Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D),  Joe Cryan (D),  Sandra Cunningham (D),  Patrick Diegnan (D),  Nia Gill (D),  Vin Gopal (D),  Linda Greenstein (D),  Joe Lagana (D),  Vince Polistina (R),  Nellie Pou (D),  Teresa Ruiz (D),  Nicholas Sacco (D),  Jean Stanfield (R),  Mike Testa (R),  Andrew Zwicker (D), 

Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Hearing (13:00:00 12/14/2023 Committee Room 6, First Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ) (on 12/14/2023)

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