Connecticut 2013 Regular Session

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11 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5380
22 January Session, 2013 LCO No. 1374
33 Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
44 Introduced by:
55 REP. GENGA, 10th Dist. REP. HEWETT, 39th Dist. REP. BARAM, 15th Dist. REP. LARSON, 11th Dist. REP. MUSHINSKY, 85th Dist. SEN. MAYNARD, 18th Dist. SEN. MEYER, 12th Dist.
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77 General Assembly
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99 Proposed Bill No. 5380
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1111 January Session, 2013
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1313 LCO No. 1374
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1515 Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
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1717 Introduced by:
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1919 REP. GENGA, 10th Dist.
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2121 REP. HEWETT, 39th Dist.
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2323 REP. BARAM, 15th Dist.
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2525 REP. LARSON, 11th Dist.
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2727 REP. MUSHINSKY, 85th Dist.
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2929 SEN. MAYNARD, 18th Dist.
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3131 SEN. MEYER, 12th Dist.
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3333 AN ACT PROHIBITING SMOKING IN MOTOR VEHICLES WITH MINOR CHILDREN.
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3535 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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3737 That the general statutes be amended to: (1) Prohibit any person from smoking in a motor vehicle when there is a child six years of age or younger or weighing less than sixty pounds and required under subsection (d) of section 14-100a of the general statutes to be secured in a child restraint system in such vehicle; (2) create a rebuttable presumption that a person who holds a cigarette, cigar, pipe or similar device to, or in the immediate proximity of, his or her mouth while such vehicle is in motion or at rest is presumed to be smoking; (3) establish that any person found in violation of such prohibition shall be deemed to have committed an infraction, unless such person is found in violation of such prohibition for the first time during the first year after the effective date of this act; and (4) establish that any person found in violation of such prohibition for the first time during the first year after the effective date of this act shall be issued a warning.
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3939 Statement of Purpose:
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4141 To protect children from secondhand smoke.