SMOKE FREE-PRIVACY-EXEMPT Senate SponsorsSen. David S. Luechtefeld and Gary Forby 4/25/2013SenateThird Reading - Lost; 021-018-005 820 ILCS 55/5from Ch. 48, par. 2855Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to exempt from certain prohibitions against discrimination any for-profit employer that, as its sole business purpose or objective, provides medical or hospital treatment to patients who have a cancerous condition, and that refuses to hire or discharges any individual, or otherwise disadvantages any individual, with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the individual uses tobacco products, including cigarettes, pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snus, snuff, clove cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, and similar products. Effective immediately.Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to exempt, from certain prohibitions against discrimination, an employer that, as its business purpose or objective, provides medical or hospital treatment to patients who have a cancerous condition, that gives new employees blood tests for tobacco use, and that refuses to hire an individual on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act or discharges an individual who was hired on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act or otherwise disadvantages any individual who was hired on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the individual uses a tobacco product. Requires such an employer to give its employees the right to appeal those adverse actions. Defines "tobacco product". Effective immediately. 2/15/2013SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Dan Duffy 2/15/2013SenateFirst Reading 2/15/2013SenateReferred to Assignments 3/5/2013SenateAssigned to Public Health 3/12/2013SenatePostponed - Public Health 3/14/2013SenateChief Sponsor Changed to Sen. David S. Luechtefeld 3/15/2013SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. David S. Luechtefeld 3/15/2013SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments 3/19/2013SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Public Health 3/19/2013SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted 3/19/2013SenateDo Pass as Amended Public Health; 006-000-003 3/19/2013SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2013 4/11/2013SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Gary Forby 4/15/2013SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. David S. Luechtefeld 4/15/2013SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments 4/16/2013SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Assignments Refers to Public Health 4/17/2013SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Postponed - Public Health 4/23/2013SenateSecond Reading 4/23/2013SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 24, 2013 4/24/2013SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Postponed - Public Health 4/25/2013SenateThird Reading - Lost; 021-018-005 4/25/2013SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a)