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2025 SENATE BILL 211
April 16, 2025 - Introduced by Senators TOMCZYK, FEYEN, NASS, TESTIN and
CABRAL-GUEVARA, cosponsored by Representatives GUSTAFSON, ORTIZ-VELEZ,
ARMSTRONG, BEHNKE, BRILL, CALLAHAN, DALLMAN, DONOVAN, GREEN,
GOEBEN, GUNDRUM, B. JACOBSON, KITCHENS, KNODL, KRUG, MELOTIK,
MURPHY, MURSAU, NEYLON, PENTERMAN, PIWOWARCZYK, PRONSCHINSKE,
RODRIGUEZ, TITTL, TUCKER, WICHGERS, WITTKE, ZIMMERMAN and SINICKI.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic
Development.
AN ACT to create 101.123 (3) (n) of the statutes; relating to: exempting tobacco
bars from the public smoking ban.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill exempts tobacco bars from the general prohibition under current law
against smoking in indoor locations if the tobacco bar satisfies all of the following:
1) the tobacco bar came into existence on or after June 4, 2009; 2) only the smoking
of cigars and pipes is allowed in the tobacco bar; and 3) the tobacco bar is not a retail
food establishment. Current law defines a Xtobacco barY as a tavern that generates
15 percent or more of its annual gross income from the sale on the tavern premises,
other than from a vending machine, of cigars and pipe tobacco. Also, under current
law, tobacco bars that existed on June 3, 2009, are exempt from the general
prohibition against smoking in indoor locations.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 101.123 (3) (n) of the statutes is created to read:
101.123 (3) (n) A tobacco bar that satisfies all of the following:
1. The tobacco bar came into existence on or after June 4, 2009.
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2. Only the smoking of cigars and pipes is allowed in the tobacco bar.
3. The tobacco bar is not a retail food establishment, as defined in s. 97.30 (1)
(c).
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