AB 295

Current law prohibits smoking in mass transit vehicles and specific enclosed

indoor locations, including the following:

1. Inpatient health care facilities.

2. Prisons and jails.

3. Retail establishments.

4. Restaurants.

5. Government buildings.

Except for hospitals, school buses, day care centers where children are present

and a few other places, a smoking area at an indoor location may be designated by

the person who is in charge of that location.

The prohibitions against smoking were expanded by

2009 Wisconsin Act 12

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effective on July 5, 2010, so that smoking will be prohibited in most indoor locations.

Under that act, among other changes to the prohibitions on smoking, a person in

charge may no longer designate smoking areas at indoor locations.

This bill authorizes the owner of a lodging establishment to designate up to 25

percent of the guest rooms in the lodging establishment as guest rooms in which

smoking is permitted. If the lodging establishment has fewer than four guest rooms,

the owner may designate one guest room as a guest room in which smoking is

permitted.