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Lawmakers await GHRA's stance 

Members of the Guam Hotel Restaurant Association have not yet taken a position on the newly enacted Natasha Protection Act. And until they do, lawmakers don't plan to change what some have called a flawed law, the legislative speaker said yesterday.

At the GHRA's General Membership meeting yesterday, Speaker Mark Forbes told the leaders of the island's hospitality industry that the current ban on smoking in hotel rooms that the act created was an "unintended consequence" of the legislation.

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