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State employees, teachers have until 2011 to quit habit
Jump to full article: Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel, 2009-05-22
Author: Tom Humphrey
Intro: The House has voted to postpone for a year a planned $50-per-month health insurance surcharge for state employees and teachers who smoke.
The move came in a House floor amendment to SB205, adopted at the urging of Rep. John Litz, D-Morristown.
"I just felt this was the wrong time and the wrong effort to be putting this on state employees," said Litz.
He said that Gov. Phil Bredesen's administration had agreed to the delay, though Bredesen indicated later that he did so somewhat reluctantly.
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