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State smoking ban likely to remain unchanged this year
Paige Clark TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Key lawmakers said Thursday that efforts to strengthen the current, statewide smoking ban are unlikely to make headway this year. The General Assembly approved a statewide smoking ban in 2012 year, which exempted bars, casinos and smoke shops. Now, Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, aims to repeal some of those exemptions, [...]
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Video: One-on-one with Rep. Charlie Brown on the smoking ban
The General Assembly passed a statewide smoking ban last year that exempts bars, taverns and casinos. This year, Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, is pushing legislation that would remove the exemption for bars. Brown talked to TheStatehouseFile.com about his bill:
Statewide smoking ban takes effect July 1
By Suzannah Couch The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS- – Hoosiers will have to put their cigarettes out while they work and eat at restaurants starting July 1 when a new statewide smoking ban goes into effect. Other new laws New laws about boating, military families, higher education and other issues also take effect July 1. Click [...]
Daniels signs smoking ban, nepotism bills into law
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS –Indiana became the 38th state to prohibit smoking in most workplaces – but not bars, private clubs and casinos – Monday when Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a ban bill into law with key lawmakers sitting by his side. The ban will take effect July 1. Daniels used four [...]
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Senate votes 28-22 to send smoking ban bill to governor
By Timothy Cox The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana will become the 38th state to prohibit smoking in most workplaces if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs into law an exemption-packed bill narrowly passed Friday by the Senate. The bill excludes bars, private clubs, casinos and some home-based businesses from the ban, which would go into effect [...]
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Podcast: Legislative news for Friday, March 9, 2012
In today’s podcast, here about what’s on tap for what is expected to be the last day of the 2012 session and hear why a proposed coal-to-gas plan will ask the Indiana Department of Revenue – rather than state lawmakers – for help with a potential tax credit problem. Listen now: Check back daily for [...]
Lawmakers scramble to find deals with one day left in session
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana House approved a statewide smoking ban Thursday night that exempts bars, private clubs and casinos but the bill’s supporters were still working to find enough votes in the Senate to send the legislation to the governor to sign into law. Senate President Pro Tem David [...]
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Podcast: Legislative news for Tuesday, March 6, 2012
In today’s podcast, hear how lawmakers are trying to strike a deal on a smoking ban bill. Also, Sen. Brandt Hershman, R-Buck Creek, declares an iPad pilot program a success. Listen now: Check back daily for our news summary.
Supporters of smoking ban start looking for ways to agree
By Samm Quinn The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Advocates of a smoking ban began meeting Monday to try to find a compromise on competing versions of legislation before lawmakers adjourn for the year as soon as Friday. At issue is not whether a ban should pass – but what should be excluded from its reach. [...]
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Commentary: Thank you for smoking
By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Allow me to start this column out by saying that there is nothing better in this world than a decent Davidoff Grand Cru series cigar, a gin martini with two olives and the company of a beautiful woman (in my case, that would be my wife). Now, [...]