AP is reporting that some measures of the smoking ban have been removed from the bill and that it moved yesterday through the House [1].
Del. John A. Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, patron of the House bill, was relieved to see the support, albeit with changes.
“I’m pleased that for the first time we’ve gotten a smoking-restriction bill that is very narrowly tailored off the House floor,” he said. “Now we have to shepherd it through the rest of the process.”
HB 1703 passed 61-38.
Cosgrove also told Bearing Drift that he brought this bill forward in the first place because a majority of his constituents were calling for it.