The
New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act
The
New Jersey Smoke-Free
Air Act (NJ SFAA) was passed by the New Jersey
legislature and signed by the Governor in January, 2006.
Effective April 15, 2006, the new law requires smokefree
environments in essentially all indoor workplaces and places
open to the public, except gaming areas in casinos. Click
here to go to the NJ SFAA section of this website
where you'll find information on the provisions of the law,
enforcement, implementation, using local laws to enhance
and augment the law, background, other assistance, etc.
Protecting
Children in Vehicles
For
background information that supports legislation requiring
vehicles to be smokefree when children are present, click
here.
For
background information that supports protecting foster/resource
family children from second hand smoke in homes and cars,
click here.
Other
Legislation
Information
about other, older state tobacco-control legislation, and
local legislation, plus litigation is available in this
legislation/litigation section of this website. For example,
you can search our database of local laws in New Jersey,
you can read digests of New Jersey state legislation, find
lists of laws elsewhere, and print "model ordinances".
Most
of our resources about legislation and litigation can be
accessed using the yellow box at the top of this page.
At
the New Jersey
Legislature's web site, www.njleg.state.nj.us,
you can find:
·
your legislator
·
bills being considered
·
legislative schedules
·
full text of existing laws.
You
can also listen to live and archived proceedings of the
legislature and its committees.
