GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
S 1
SENATE BILL 1086
Short Title: Tobacco Free Schools. |
(Public) |
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Sponsors: |
Senators Purcell; Albertson, Bingham, Dannelly, Forrester, Malone, and Rand. |
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Referred to: |
Health Care. |
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March 21, 2007
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO protect children in the public schools from exposure to tobacco by requiring local boards of education to adopt written policies prohibiting the use of tobacco products by any person in public school buildings and school facilities, on the public school campus, and in or on other school property.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 155C-407 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C-407.
Policy prohibiting tobacco use in school buildings.buildings and the
surrounding school campus.
Local boards of education shall adopt and enforce a written
policy providing for enforcement of federal requirements under the Pro-Children
Act of 1994, 20 U.S.C. § 6083, prohibiting smoking within any school building
used to provide routine or regular kindergarten, elementary, or secondary
education or library services to children.prohibiting at all times the
use by any person of any tobacco product in a school building, school facility,
on the surrounding public school campus, and in or on any other school property
owned or operated by the local school administrative unit. The policy shall
include at least the following:
The policy shall further prohibit the use of all tobacco
products in enclosed school buildings during regular school hours, and shall
include:
(1) Adequate
notice to students and school personnel of the policy.
(2) Posting of
signs regarding the use of tobacco products by any person.
(3) Requirements
that school personnel enforce the policy.
(1a) Adequate notice to students and school personnel of the policy and sanctions for violation of the policy.
(2a) Posting signs prohibiting the use of tobacco products by any person at all times.
(3) Sanctions for violation of the policy by any person. Such sanctions may include participation in an approved smoking cessation program.
(4) Requirements that school personnel enforce the policy.
The policy may permit tobacco products to be included in
instructional or research activities in public school buildings if the activity
is conducted or supervised by the faculty member overseeing the instruction or
research and the activity does not include smoking, chewing, or otherwise
ingesting the tobacco product.
Nothing in this section, G.S. 143-595 through G.S. 143-601, or any other section prohibits a local board of education from adopting and enforcing a more restrictive policy on the use of tobacco in school buildings, in school facilities, on school campuses, or at school-related or school-sponsored events, and in or on other school property."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law except that local boards of education shall have until January 1, 2008, to comply with G.S. 115C-407, as amended by this act.