Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2009-06-02
Author: CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press Writer
Intro: A last-minute maneuver to revive part of an indoor smoking bill continued on Monday, the final day of the 2009 Nevada legislature.
The plan, to roll back a voter-approved smoking ban only at tobacco trade conventions, was suggested as an amendment to AB309, which deals with the crime of stalking, earlier this week.
“I’ve never had a bill that was a battle ground before, at least not this late in the session,” said Assemblywoman Ellen Koivisto, D-Las Vegas, sponsor of AB309. “I brought that bill because of a woman in my district who was killed by a stalker. The stalking bill is so important.”
Koivisto said some AB309 sponsors in the Assembly wanted their names off the bill if the smoking provisions remained, and warned that the bill would lose their votes if the provisions were not removed.
But others in the Senate warned Koivisto that the bill wouldn’t pass out of that house unless the tobacco convention language was added back in. Koivisto said the bill was being redrafted to include the tobacco convention language.
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