BILL NUMBER: SB 332	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 15, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 6, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 3, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

    An act to add Article 1.5 (commencing with Section
104497) to Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 103 of the Health and
Safety Code, relating to smoking.   An act to add
Section 1947.5 to the Civil Code, relating to tenancies. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 332, as amended, Padilla.  Smoking: rental dwellings.
  Rental dwellings: smoking. 
   Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential
tenancies. Existing law authorizes the creation of antitobacco use
programs for school-age populations and prohibits any person from
smoking a cigarette, cigar, or other tobacco-related product, or from
disposing of cigarette butts, cigar butts, or any other
tobacco-related waste, within a playground.
   This bill would authorize a landlord of a residential dwelling
unit to prohibit the smoking of tobacco products on the property, in
a dwelling unit, in another interior or exterior area, or on the
premises on which the dwelling unit is located. The bill would make
certain requirements on notices and leases executed on and after, and
on and before, January 1, 2012, in this regard. The bill would
require that a landlord who prohibits smoking pursuant to this
authority be subject to federal, state, and local requirements
governing changes to the terms of a lease or rental agreement for
tenants, as specified. The bill would provide that its provisions do
not preempt local ordinances in effect on or before January 1, 2012.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) More than 443,000 people die in the United States from
tobacco-related diseases every year, making tobacco-related diseases
the nation's leading cause of preventable death.
   (b) The State Department of Public Health has estimated that 86
percent of adult Californians are nonsmokers. Secondhand smoke is
responsible for an estimated 49,400 deaths among nonsmokers each year
in the United States, which includes 3,400 lung cancer deaths and
46,000 deaths due to heart disease. Secondhand smoke also has been
proven to cause cancer in humans.
   (c) Secondhand smoke exposure adversely affects fetal growth with
elevated risk of low birth weight and increased risk of sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS) in infants of mothers who smoke.
   (d) Secondhand smoke exposure causes as many as 300,000 children
in the United States under 18 months of age to suffer lower
respiratory tract infections, such as pneumonia and bronchitis;
exacerbates childhood asthma; and increases the risk of acute,
chronic, middle-ear infections in children.
   (e) The United States Environmental Protection Agency has
classified secondhand smoke as a group A carcinogen, the most
dangerous class of carcinogen.
   (f) The United States Surgeon General has concluded that there is
no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
   (g) The State Air Resources Board has put secondhand smoke in the
same category as the most toxic automotive and industrial air
pollutants by categorizing it as a toxic air contaminant for which
there is no safe level of exposure.
   (h) The California Environmental Protection Agency has included
secondhand smoke on the Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to the
State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and other
reproductive harm.
   (i) Thirty-one percent of California's housing is multiunit
residences, such as apartments and condominiums. 
  SEC. 2.    Article 1.5 (commencing with Section
104497) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 103 of the Health
and Safety Code, to read:

      Article 1.5.  Smoking of Tobacco Products in Residential Rental
Units


   SEC. 2.    Section 1947.5 is added to the  
Civil Code   , to read: 
    104497.   1947.5.   (a) A landlord of a
residential dwelling unit, as defined in Section 1940  of
the Civil Code  , or his or her agent, may prohibit the
smoking of a cigarette, as defined in Section 104556  of the
Health and Safety Code  , or other tobacco product on the
property or in any building or portion of the building, including any
dwelling unit, other interior or exterior area, or the premises on
which it is located, in accordance with this article. A limitation or
prohibition on the use of any tobacco product shall not affect any
other term or condition of the tenancy.
   (b) (1) Every lease or rental agreement entered into on or after
January 1, 2012, for a residential dwelling unit on property on any
portion of which the landlord has prohibited the smoking of
cigarettes and   or  other tobacco products
pursuant to this article shall include a provision that specifies
the areas on the property where smoking is prohibited, if the
 lessor   lessee  has not previously
occupied the dwelling unit.
   (2) For a lease or rental agreement entered into before January 1,
2012, a prohibition against the smoking of cigarettes  and
  or  other tobacco products in any portion of the
property in which smoking was previously permitted shall constitute a
change of the terms of tenancy, requiring adequate notice in
writing, to be provided in the manner prescribed in Section 827
 of the Civil Code  .
   (c) A landlord who exercises the authority provided in subdivision
(a) to prohibit smoking shall be subject to federal, state, and
local requirements governing changes to the terms of a lease or
rental agreement for tenants with leases or rental agreements that
are in existence at the time that the policy prohibiting smoking is
adopted.
   (d) This section shall not be construed to preempt any local
ordinance in effect on or before January 1, 2012, nor shall it be
construed to require statutory authority to establish or enforce any
other lawful term or condition of the tenancy.