General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6285
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 2426
*02426*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. GENGA, 10th Dist. REP. KOKORUDA, 101st Dist. REP. ALBIS, 99th Dist. REP. ALEXANDER, 58th Dist. REP. BARAM, 15th Dist. REP. BECKER, 19th Dist. REP. CAMILLO, 151st Dist. SEN. CRISCO, 17th Dist. REP. CURREY, 11th Dist. SEN. FONFARA, 1st Dist. REP. FRITZ, 90th Dist. REP. HADDAD, 54th Dist. REP. HAMPTON, 16th Dist. REP. HEWETT, 39th Dist. SEN. KENNEDY, 12th Dist. REP. KINER, 59th Dist. SEN. LARSON, 3rd Dist. REP. LEMAR, 96th Dist. REP. LUXENBERG, 12th Dist. REP. PERONE, 137th Dist. REP. RILEY, 46th Dist. REP. ROSE, 118th Dist. REP. TONG, 147th Dist. REP. TWEEDIE, 13th Dist. REP. WILLIS, 64th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6285
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 2426
*02426*
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. GENGA, 10th Dist.
REP. KOKORUDA, 101st Dist.
REP. ALBIS, 99th Dist.
REP. ALEXANDER, 58th Dist.
REP. BARAM, 15th Dist.
REP. BECKER, 19th Dist.
REP. CAMILLO, 151st Dist.
SEN. CRISCO, 17th Dist.
REP. CURREY, 11th Dist.
SEN. FONFARA, 1st Dist.
REP. FRITZ, 90th Dist.
REP. HADDAD, 54th Dist.
REP. HAMPTON, 16th Dist.
REP. HEWETT, 39th Dist.
SEN. KENNEDY, 12th Dist.
REP. KINER, 59th Dist.
SEN. LARSON, 3rd Dist.
REP. LEMAR, 96th Dist.
REP. LUXENBERG, 12th Dist.
REP. PERONE, 137th Dist.
REP. RILEY, 46th Dist.
REP. ROSE, 118th Dist.
REP. TONG, 147th Dist.
REP. TWEEDIE, 13th Dist.
REP. WILLIS, 64th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING SMOKING IN MOTOR VEHICLES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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 section; (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 section shall be issued a warning; and (5) prohibit a police officer from searching a motor vehicle, the contents of a motor vehicle, the driver or a passenger in the vehicle solely because the vehicle was stopped for a smoking violation.
Statement of Purpose:
To protect children from secondhand smoke.