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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1066

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Lisk, Dyer, R. Fisher, Cairnes, Grant, Chandler, Sheldon, Scott and Ballasiotes)

Read first time 03/01/95.

Authorizing agreements regarding smoking in the workplace that provide for a designated enclosed smoking room.

    AN ACT Relating to agreements regarding smoking in the workplace; adding a new section to chapter 49.17 RCW; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 49.17 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) Any rule adopted under this chapter restricting smoking in the workplace shall include provisions permitting employer policies as authorized in this section.

    (2) An employer's policy restricting smoking in the workplace must include provision for a designated enclosed smoking room if a smoking room policy is included in a collective bargaining agreement applicable to the workplace or, if no collective bargaining agreement applies, the employees of the employer agree to a written smoking room policy.  The designated smoking room shall be deemed to meet any ventilation requirements of this chapter if it is ventilated as required by the written smoking room policy.

    (3) The written smoking room policy must be kept on file by the employer and made available to employees on request.

    (4) This section does not apply to a workplace if a statute expressly prohibiting indoor smoking applies to that workplace.

    (5) This section shall not be construed to require any employer to provide a smoking room.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.

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