2011-2012 Bill 5092: Cigar Bars - South Carolina Legislature Online

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 119th Session, 2011-2012 3 4 H. 5092 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 General Bill 9 Sponsors: Rep. Quinn 10 Document Path: l:\council\bills\nbd\12281ac12.docx 11 12 Introduced in the House on March 28, 2012 13 Currently residing in the House Committee on Judiciary 14 15 Summary: Cigar bars 16 17 18 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 19 20 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 21 3/28/2012 House Introduced and read first time ( House Journalpage 35) 22 3/28/2012 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary ( House Journalpage 35) 23 24 25 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 26 27 3/28/2012 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 12 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 44-95-25 SO AS TO SPECIFY 13 THAT SMOKING IS PERMITTED IN CIGAR BARS AND TO 14 DEFINE CIGAR BAR. 15 16 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 17 Carolina: 18 19 SECTION 1. Chapter 95, Title 44 of the 1976 Code is amended 20 by adding: 21 22 “Section 449525. (A) Except as prohibited pursuant to 23 Section 449520, smoking is permitted in all other public indoor 24 and outdoor areas and it is specifically permitted in cigar bars. 25 (B) For purposes of this section, ‘cigar bar’ means an 26 establishment open and accessible to the public that is devoted to 27 the smoking of cigars, and other tobacco products if allowed by the 28 owner or operator of the cigar bar, by customers on the premises, 29 and if beverages or food, or both, are served, they are only 30 incidental to the smoking of cigars.” 31 32 SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the 33 Governor. 34 XX 35

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