Proposal
puts limits on all Cal State student smokers
By Ronea Alger
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
At
the recent California State University Board
of Trustees Committee meeting, the committee
discussed a regulatory change that would
give campus presidents the authority to
enact smoking polices on campus.
This change would provide campus presidents
authority to extend second-hand smoking
policy to all individuals, including members
of the public, said Jackie R. McClain, vice
chancellor of Human Resources for the CSU
system.
Currently, state law prohibits smoking in
campus buildings and in outdoor areas within
five feet of main entrances and exits. A
student group known as C.O.U.G.H. (The Campuses
Organized and United for Good Health) has
asked that smoking be prohibited at least
20 feet from all campus buildings. The board
will vote on adding Section 42356 to Title
5, California Code of Regulations in September.
Section 42356 would delegate authority to
campus presidents and the chancellor to
adopt rules regulating smoking on campuses
and properties of the CSU. The purpose of
the regulations would be to mitigate exposure
to second-hand smoke in the universities.
Notice of smoking regulations would be posted
at principle entrances to the CSU campuses.
If the Board of Trustees add Section 42356
to Title 5, every person who violates or
attempts to violate the rules would be guilty
of a misdemeanor, McClain said. Since there
may be negotiable impacts to represented
employees from any rule adopted by a campus,
notice of the rule would need to be given
to the employee unions before implementation
of the rule.
A public hearing concerning this proposed
change will be held at 9 a.m., Sept. 18,
in the Glenn S. Dumke Conference Center
at 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach. Anyone
interested may present oral or written statements
pertaining to the change at the hearing.
Written comments must be received by the
close of business on Sept. 18 addressed
to Bruce M. Richardson, Office of the Chancellor,
401 Golden Shore, Long Beach, Calif., 90802-4210.
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