Mississippi House Bill 656 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 4 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Prohibit Smoking In Public Places And In Places Of Employment; To Provide Definitions; To Provide For Voluntary Designation; To Provide Minimum Requirements And Rights Of Persons In Control; To Authorize The State Board Of Health To Promulgate Rules And Regulations To Enforce Smoking Prohibitions; To Prescribe Exemptions; To Provide For Enforcement Of This Act; To Prescribe Fines And Penalties For Violations Of This Act; To Prescribe The Duties Of The State Department Of Health Relative To This Act; To Repeal Sections 29-5-161 And 29-5-163, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Are The Mississippi Clean Indoor Air Act; To Provide For A Referendum On The Question Of The Prohibition Of Smoking In Public Places And In Places Of Employment In Mississippi And To Condition The Enactment Of This Act On The Results Of That Referendum; And For Related Purposes.

Smoking in public and places of employment; create statewide referendum on prohibition of.

Rep. Henry Zuber [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-04	House	Died In Committee
2014-01-20	House	Referred To Public Health and Human Services

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/HB/HB0656.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0656IN.htm