Iowa Senate shelves bill to ban smoking on casino gaming floors

A bill that would have banned smoking on casino gaming floors in Iowa didn’t go anywhere this week, after a Senate subcommittee voted to shelve the proposal indefinitely.

The legislation, Senate File 2051, was introduced as “An Act relating to the elimination of the exemption of gaming floors from the prohibitions of the smokefree air Act.” The bill proposed a change to state law by amending Iowa Code section 142D.4 “by striking the subsection” that currently allows smoking on certain gaming floors.