1| STATE OF OKLAHOMA |
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2| 1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023) |
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3|SENATE BILL 184 By: Hicks |
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6| AS INTRODUCED |
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7| An Act relating to public health; amending 63 O.S. |
| 2021, Section 1-1527, which relates to smoking in |
8| public places; eliminating certain preemption; |
| authorizing adoption of certain regulations; |
9| broadening provisions to apply to vapor products; |
| prohibiting certain local regulations from being less |
10| stringent than state law; updating statutory |
| reference; and providing an effective date. |
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13|BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: |
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14| SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 63 O.S. 2021, Section 1-1527, is |
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15|amended to read as follows: |
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16| Section 1-1527. The State Legislature by adopting this act |
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17|intends to preempt any other regulation promulgated to control |
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18|smoking in public places and to standardize laws that governmental |
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19|Political subdivisions may adopt regulations to control or prohibit |
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20|smoking or vaping in public places or properties owned or operated |
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21|by the respective governing bodies. Cities and towns may enact and |
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22|enforce laws prohibiting and penalizing conduct under provisions of |
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23|this act, but the provisions of such laws shall be the same as |
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24|provided in this act and the enforcement provisions under such laws |
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1|shall not the Smoking in Public Places and Indoor Workplaces Act. |
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2|Such laws may be more, but not less, stringent than those of this |
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3|act; provided, however, that cities and towns shall be authorized to |
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4|enact laws restricting smoking on properties owned or operated by |
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5|the respective governing bodies. Nothing in this section shall be |
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6|construed as to prevent county or municipal governments, at the |
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7|discretion of the respective governing bodies, from prohibiting |
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8|smoking in or on property owned or operated by the respective |
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9|governing bodies the Smoking in Public Places and Indoor Workplaces |
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10|Act. |
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11| SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023. |
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