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. In 2007,
supplemental regulations were enacted to help implement
the NJ SFAA. Click here
to go to the NJ SFAA section of this website where you'll
find more details on the 2006 NJ SFAA and the 2007 implementing
regulations, enforcement, using local laws to enhance and
augment the law, and data that supports passage of the NJ
SFAA.
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 federal and other New Jersey state and local tobacco-control
legislation, plus litigation topics are available in the
legislation/litigation section of this website. Click
here for a list of state tobacco control bills introduced
during current New Jersey legislative session that runs
until January 2010.
You
can also search our database of local laws in New Jersey,
read digests of New Jersey state legislation, find lists
of laws elsewhere, and print "model ordinances".
These resources 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.
