STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1415_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1231
                                     S.D. 3
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1231, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMOKING IN THE WORKPLACE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prohibit smoking in state-
controlled and state-owned workplaces and vehicles.

     The Hawaii Medical Association and the Coalition for a
Tobacco Free Hawaii testified in support of the intent of the
measure.  The Department of Health, the Convention Center
Authority Board, the American Lung Association of Hawaii, the
United Public Workers, the Hawaii Nurses Association, and an
individual opposed the measure.

     Your Committee finds that regulation of smoking in the
workplace is an important issue that merits further discussion.
At this time, your Committee believes that the discussion should
begin with addressing the public workplace.  In time, private
places of employment may be addressed.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:
     
     (1)  Narrowing the ban to include only enclosed areas of
          public workplaces and vehicles;


 
 
 
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     (2)  Exempting from the ban dining areas, certain banquet
          and meeting facilities, private functions at convention
          center facilities, guest rooms of hotels and hotel-
          condos, and involuntarily confined residents of state
          and county institutions;

     (3)  Allowing the counties to impose more stringent smoking
          prohibitions;

     (4)  Authorizing the Department of Health and the respective
          counties to enforce the ban; and

     (5)  Repealing section 328K-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
          relating to regulation of smoking in the office
          workplace.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1231, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and
Hawaiian Affairs in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1231,
S.D. 3, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and Public
                                   Employment,



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair