Bill Text: HI HR102 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Smoking Prohibition In Housing Projects

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-30 - (H) Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Carroll, Herkes, Manahan, Wooley excused (4). [HR102 Detail]

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	102
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

encouraging the hawaii public housing authority to prohibit smoking in all public housing projects and State low-income housing projects.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority has the authority to adopt rules concerning public housing projects and state low-income housing projects; and

 

     WHEREAS, residents of public housing and state low-income housing projects should have a healthy living environment; and

 

     WHEREAS, smoke from cigarettes and other tobacco products can cause serious health problems for persons who smoke and also for persons exposed to secondhand smoke; and

 

     WHEREAS, approximately 443,000 persons die each year from health problems related to smoking or secondhand smoke, and 8,600,000 persons live with serious illnesses caused by smoking; and

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has encouraged public housing authorities to implement non-smoking policies in public housing units; and

 

     WHEREAS, public housing authorities and housing commissions in states such as Alaska, California, Colorado, Main, Michigan, New York, and Texas have implemented non-smoking policies in their public housing projects; and

 

     WHEREAS, prohibiting smoking in the public housing and state low-income housing projects under the jurisdiction of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority would protect the health and welfare of the residents of those projects; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2012, that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is encouraged to prohibit smoking in all public housing and state low-income housing projects; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Human Services and Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Smoking Prohibition In Housing Projects