SENATE BILL: The Protection of Personal Choice Act (Law'd)

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How is the PPHA being enforced? I hope restaraunt owners are not being compelled to act as cops against people smoking in their establishments.

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Act as cops meaning? They call the police or they ask the person smoking to leave or stop smoking?

well the odd thing about this bill is that it says that certain establishments must not allow smoking, but that the individuals who smoke are the ones punished for a violation. so if someone smokes where they're not supposed to, it is mandatory that they be fined even if they didn't know the establishment wasn't exempt.

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This looks like it would restrict the exemption even more than the current PPHA. Am I reading that right?

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Establishments not exempted by clause 4, it should read.

so establishments that aren't allowed to have smoking are restricted to those over 18

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Ordinarily I would've made some sort of official comments on this bill by now but I'm sure the instant I did the sponsor of this particular piece of legislation would throw a fit over a "conflict of interest."

Don't make a comment and then pretend you're not making one. I don't know what this has to do with your position as GM. Are millions of people going to be dying in restaurants if this passes?

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What's Jbrase's amendment trying to say? Just stating it only goes into effect in federally owned places in all the regions?

Yes, it deals with those areas over which the Senate has exclusive legislative powers under the Constitution Art 1, Sec 5, C 25-27.

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In that case, I would oppose the bill. It would really defeat the whole purpose of the legislation. If I'm understanding this correctly, we simply go from making smoking illegal in public places to only making it illegal in federally owned buildings. I can't support that because I'm an obvious freedom hater. I will support the bill sans Jbrase's little addition.

No, it's not just federally owned buildings. It would also include all buildings in Nyman and in  territories outside the regions.

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Aye

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Excellent. I think this will be a good middle of the road policy that takes into consideration the concerns of all sides.