HF 2093: Relating to smoking in a motor vehicle with a child present and providing penalties

Died when the session ended · The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to smoking in a motor vehicle with a child present. The bill prohibits a person from smoking in a motor vehicle if a person under years of age is present in the motor vehicle. The bill provides that a peace officer shall not stop or detain a person solely for a suspected violation of the bill, but rather that a peace officer may only enforce the bill as a secondary action when the driver of a motor vehicle has been stopped or detained for a suspected violation of another provision of Code chapter 321 (motor vehicles and law of the road), a local ordinance equivalent to a provision of Code chapter 321, or other law.

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named January 27, 2020

Rep. Chris Hagenow (R)
Rep. Jon Jacobsen (R)
Rep. Mary Lynn Wolfe (D)

Lobbying · 2 for, 2 against

For: Blank Childrens Hospital; CAFE Iowa Citizen's Action Network (Clean Air for Everyone)

Against: Iowans For Alternatives To Smoking And Tobacco; Vapor Technology Association

In plain words

January 22, 2020Filed in the House and sent to the Human Resources committee
January 27, 2020House subcommittee named: Hagenow, Jacobsen and Wolfe