BILL · 2013–14 SESSION

SB 5230: Smoking in vehicles

Prohibiting smoking in vehicles containing children.

Summary

Provides that a person who smokes a lighted pipe, cigar, or cigarette in a moving or parked motor vehicle containing any passengers under the age of eighteen years is guilty of a traffic infraction. Allows law enforcement officers to issue only verbal warnings for violations of the act, for the first six months after the act takes effect.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to operating a motor vehicle while smoking;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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