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(BSTIN — When the smoke
| from the House and Senate
I at the end of the 1979 Legisla-
B one issue may still be smolder-
’ . anti-smoking laws.
Bills to limit or prohibit smoking
|been introduced each session
JtHe first no—smoking bill was
sed by state lawmakers in 1975,
J this year is no exception.
u, Sen . Jack Ogg, D-Houston, spon-
. ore d the original Texas anti-
■moking bill and has introduced
Liar legislation this session.
Under the current no-smoking
Ur, the penalty for conviction of the
He misdemeanor is a fine not to
Hd $200. Smoking is disallowed
areas such as libraries, elevators,
Haters, museums, hospitals and
^^■g’s three new no-smoking bills
ivould place successively stricter
limits on where smokers may light
Up. One bill adds grocery stores and
retail establishments to the list of
bo—smoking areas, the next in
cludes public buildings where pub
ic records are kept and the third
frohibits smoking in any state build
ing except in hallways or stairwells.
Ogg said he is aware the bills will
be controversial, especially for legis
lators who could be prohibited from
smoking on the House and Senate
floors. He included a provision in
the last bill that would allow the
executive director or chief adminis-
tator to designate rooms or areas in
state buildings where smoking
would be allowed, and he said this
may make the bill more appealing to
legislators who smoke.
“The Senate or the House could
be designated a smoking area,” Ogg
added.
The Houston senator said he ex
pects some opposition from tobacco
lobbyists who recently helped de
feat anti-smoking bills in California,
and from smokers who will complain
of excessive governmental interfer
ence in citizens’ lives.
“I think society has an interest in
anything that deals with health, wel
fare and public safety,” Ogg re
sponded, and said taxpayers ulti
mately are charged for smokers’
illnesses and accidents.
“I am a non-smoker,” Ogg said.
Your right to smoke ends at my
nose. I don’t care if you smoke, but I
don t want to have to breathe it.”
The leader of Texans United for
Rights of Non-Smokers and a
staunch supporter of no—smoking
legislation, Dorothy Richter of Aus-
3-fier beer industry
established in Texas
if Clements signs bill
I United Press International
AfSTIN, — The House Thurs-
ssed a bill allowing the sale of
)eer in 7-, 8- and 16-ounce contain-
!rs,|despite arguments by an
[e legislator that the measure
erved the special interests of
breweries.
The bill, passed 97-29, already
ad lleared the Senate and now
eeds only Gov. Bill Clements’ sig-
lature before becoming law.
The bill by Rep. Gib Lewis,
'-Fort Worth, would establish a
iree-tier beer industry in Texas
md would require brewers to sell
nly to wholesalers and wholesalers
sell only to retail outlets.
But Rep. Wayne Peveto,
Binge, argued the bill was the
Jlgest and largest” special interest
leasure of the 66th Legislature and
rould guarantee a monopoly for
irgejbeer distributors.
You’re guaranteeing the dis-
ibutors of this state a complete ,
lonopoly,” he said. “There will be
o competition left in the beer in-
ustry.
lie beer industry is a good one.
lut they ought to be ashamed to
Dine before the House of Repre-
entatives and the Senate and ask
ir a complete monopoly. ”
T^ e House also defeated an
mendment by Rep. Ron Bird,
Man Antonio, permitting bre
weries to sell beer for personal con
sumption to its employees.
A bill by Rep. Lynn Nabers,
D-Brownwood, giving the trucking
industry immunity from federal an
titrust laws was given tentative ap
proval by the House, despite objec
tions by two freshman members.
The measure also would allow the
trucking business to set its own rec
ommended rates before submitting
them to the Railroad Commission
for final approval.
Reps. Tom Delay, R-Simonton,
and Ted Lyons, D-Mesquite, ar
gued a similar law passed recently in
Georgia had been successfully chal
lenged by the U.S. Department of
Justice.
The House also passed a bill by
Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur,
that would allow persons suffering
from epilepsy to obtain medical ap
proval before obtaining a driver’s
license. The bill also calls for the
term “mentally incompetent” to be
substituted for the words “idiot, in
sane, feebleminded and imbecile”
in state statutes.
Finally, the House passed on
voice vote a bill increasing the fi
nancial requirements for a
pawnshop business in Texas and set
ting a $1,500 licensing fee in some
instances. Opponents of the bill had
argued it was an attempt by
pawnbrokers to hold down competi
tion by making it difficult for new
businesses to open.
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tin, agreed with Ogg. She ap
proached the senator about the pub
lic records bill after being disturbed
by smokers in a records room of the
Travis County Courthouse.
“There are three or four obvious
reasons for prohibitng smoking in
these areas where documents are
kept,” Richter said.
“First there is the danger of ashes
falling and burning holes in the
documents, then there is the dete
riorating effect of smoke on the pa
pers — many are old parchment.
There is always the fire hazard and
also the public, non-smokers, are
there and are bothered by the
smoke.”
Rep. Lance Lalor, D-Houston,
introduced a bill to prohibit smok
ing in grocery stores, nursing homes
or any retail establishments.
The president of the Texas Nurs
ing Home Association, Sid Rich,
said his group opposes Lalor’s bill
because it is another attempt to reg
ulate nursing home residents.
“In the process of trying to
provide a safe facility to protect the
patients, we are regulating them
into unhappiness,” Rich said.
Lalor’s bill will be heard in the
House Committee on Health Serv
ices; Ogg’s bill will go before the
Senate Subcommittee on Civil Mat
ters.
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