Bill > A2143

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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Committee Categories

Bill Moen (D)*,  John Allen (D),  Reginald Atkins (D),  Rosaura Bagolie (D),  Clinton Calabrese (D),  Linda Carter (D),  Robert Clifton (R),  Alixon Collazos-Gill (D),  Joe Danielsen (D),  Chris DePhillips (R),  John DiMaio (R),  Margie Donlon (D),  Aura Dunn (R),  Vicky Flynn (R),  Roy Freiman (D),  Don Guardian (R),  Shama Haider (D),  Robert Karabinchak (D),  Jim Kennedy (D),  Yvonne Lopez (D),  Michele Matsikoudis (R),  Greg McGuckin (R),  Nancy Muñoz (R),  Carol Murphy (D),  Ellen Park (D),  Luanne Peterpaul (D),  Annette Quijano (D),  Jessica Ramirez (D),  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D),  Gabriel Rodriguez (D),  Brian Rumpf (R),  William Sampson (D),  Alex Sauickie (R),  Gerry Scharfenberger (R),  Erik Simonsen (R),  Balvir Singh (D),  Bill Spearman (D),  Shanique Speight (D),  Sterley Stanley (D),  Shavonda Sumter (D),  Lisa Swain (D),  Claire Swift (R),  Cleopatra Tucker (D),  Chris Tully (D),  Anthony Verrelli (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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