45. SB 1811 - Aliseda Amendment

Adoption; May 20, 2011; RV #1216; Journal Page 4547: 79 Yeas, 58 Nays, 3 Present-not-voting

YCT Yea.  Amendment 55 amended the provisions of Amendment 53 to exempt billiard halls from a statewide ban on smoking in public businesses.  Besides limiting the scope of a regulation YCT opposed, this amendment was positive for two primary reasons. First, billiard halls consistently spoke?out at legislative hearings opposing the regulation. Second, the exemption acknowledged that smoking bans negatively impact some businesses more than others. Businesses like billiard halls and bowling alleys have been particularly hard-hit by smoking bans because the laws require smokers to leave their game in order to go outside and smoke.