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Article: HOUSE CALLS FOR CASINO SMOKING BAN EXEMPTION

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February 17, 2009
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INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana House late Monday exempted casinos from a proposed ban on workplace smoking. Meanwhile, the Senate approved the first of the Kernan-Shepard proposals to revamp local government.

State lawmakers worked late Monday evening as deadlines approached to pass bills out of the House and Senate and move them to the other chamber. Here are the highlights:

n Smoking ban: Casinos would be exempt from a proposed workplace smoking ban under an amendment approved to House Bill 1213. Previously, the bill said casinos such as Aztar and the French Lick, Ind., resort have to designate 20 percent of their gaming positions as nonsmoking, but House members voted to take that wording out ...

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