{
  "dataset": "vaping",
  "license": "LawLert Open Law Data — CC BY 4.0. Attribute to \"LawLert (https://www.lawlertapp.com)\". General legal information from official sources, not legal advice. Verify against the linked official source before relying on it.",
  "generated": "2026-07-21T09:11:35.067Z",
  "count": 51,
  "rules": [
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ak",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. The Smokefree Alaska Law (effective Oct. 1, 2018) prohibits smoking and vaping in enclosed public places and workplaces; e-cigarettes are expressly included.",
      "source_url": "https://health.alaska.gov/en/education/alaskas-smokefree-workplace-law/",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "al",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. Alabama's Clean Indoor Air Act restricts only combustible smoking in limited public places and does not cover restaurants, bars, or e-cigarettes. (SB 9 adds e-cigs effective Oct. 1, 2026; local ordinances may ban vaping.)",
      "source_url": "https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/tpts/faq.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ar",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. The Arkansas Clean Indoor Air Act bans smoking in workplaces and public places, but \"smoking\" is defined as lighted/combustible products only — e-cigarettes are not included. Local ordinances may apply.",
      "source_url": "https://healthy.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/CleanIndoorAirActRule.pdf",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "az",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. The Smoke-Free Arizona Act bans smoking in public places and workplaces, but its definition of \"smoking\" covers only lighted tobacco — e-cigarettes/vapor are not included. Local ordinances may restrict vaping.",
      "source_url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/00601-01.htm",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ca",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in all enclosed workplaces, which include restaurants and bars. Labor Code 6404.5 prohibits smoking of tobacco products in 100% of enclosed workplaces, and its definition incorporates \"the use of an electronic smoking device.\"",
      "source_url": "https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/smoking.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "co",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. The Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act, amended in 2019, added \"electronic smoking device\" and applies the ban to any place of employment and enclosed public areas.",
      "source_url": "https://content.leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019A/bills/2019a_1076_rev.pdf",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ct",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. Connecticut prohibits vaping in restaurants and bars (liquor-permit establishments), retail stores, health-care and government buildings, schools, and hotels (C.G.S. 19a-342a), and e-cigs are expressly included — but there is no general \"any private workplace\" clause.",
      "source_url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_368m.htm",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "dc",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. D.C.'s smoke-free law defines \"smoking\" to include electronic smoking devices and bans it in all places of employment and public places, expressly including restaurants and taverns.",
      "source_url": "https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/7-741.01",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "de",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Delaware's Clean Indoor Air Act defines \"smoking\" to include electronic smoking devices and prohibits it in any workplace, restaurant, and bar. Only dedicated vapor establishments are exempt.",
      "source_url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/title16/c029/index.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "fl",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. Florida bans vaping in enclosed indoor workplaces (including restaurants) under the Clean Indoor Air Act (vaping added by 2019 Amendment 9) — but stand-alone bars, retail tobacco/vape shops, and designated hotel rooms are exempt.",
      "source_url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/386.204",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ga",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. Georgia's Smokefree Air Act was amended in 2023 to add vaping in enclosed public places and workplaces — but with the same broad exemptions: bars/restaurants that admit no one under 21 (and employ no one under 21), private clubs, and employer-designated areas.",
      "source_url": "https://dph.georgia.gov/",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "hi",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Hawaii's smoke-free law (HRS Ch. 328J, amended 2015) defines \"smoking\" to include electronic smoking devices and prohibits it in enclosed public places and workplaces, expressly including bars and restaurants.",
      "source_url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0328J/HRS_0328J-0001.htm",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ia",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. Iowa's Smokefree Air Act prohibits smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and bars, but its definition of \"smoking\" covers only lighted tobacco products — e-cigarettes/vapor are not included.",
      "source_url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/142D.2.pdf",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "id",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. The Idaho Clean Indoor Air Act bans smoking in public places, but \"smoking\" covers only lighted tobacco — e-cigarettes are not included, and bars are treated as permitted smoking facilities. Local ordinances may restrict vaping.",
      "source_url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title39/T39CH55/SECT39-5502/",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "il",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. The Smoke Free Illinois Act (e-cigs added effective Jan. 1, 2024) defines \"smoking\" to include electronic cigarettes and prohibits it in public places and workplaces, including restaurants, bars, and taverns.",
      "source_url": "https://ilga.gov/documents/legislation/publicacts/103/PDF/103-0272.pdf",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "in",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. Indiana's Smoke Free Air Law bans combustible smoking in most workplaces/restaurants but exempts bars, casinos and clubs; \"smoking\" covers only lighted products — vapor pens/e-liquid are handled separately and are not part of the indoor-use ban. Many local ordinances do cover e-cigs.",
      "source_url": "https://www.in.gov/atc/tobacco-resources/tobacco-information/",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ks",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. The Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act prohibits smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces (including restaurants and bars), but \"smoking\" covers only lighted tobacco — the AG has opined that using an e-cigarette is not \"smoking\" under the Act. Local ordinances may restrict vaping.",
      "source_url": "https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch21/021_061_0009.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ky",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide clean-indoor-air law, so state law does not prohibit vaping (or smoking) in indoor workplaces, restaurants, or bars. Indoor vaping is restricted only by local ordinance (~37 cities).",
      "source_url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=39319",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "la",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. Louisiana's Smokefree Air Act bans combustible smoking, but its definition of \"smoking\" is combustion-only and does NOT include e-cigarettes/vapor. Bars are also exempt. Vaping is restricted only by local ordinance (e.g., New Orleans).",
      "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=964961",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ma",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned wherever smoking is prohibited, including indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. M.G.L. c.270 22 expressly includes electronic cigarettes and vaporizing products. Only licensed smoking bars and retail tobacco stores are excepted.",
      "source_url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter270/Section22",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "md",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Maryland's Clean Indoor Air Act, amended in 2024 to add vaping, prohibits smoking and vaping in indoor areas open to the public (including alcohol-licensed bars) and indoor workplaces.",
      "source_url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=ghg&section=24-504",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "me",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Maine's smoke-free laws expressly define \"smoking\" to include the use of an electronic smoking device (22 M.R.S. 1541) and ban it in all enclosed public places and workplaces.",
      "source_url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/22/title22sec1541.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "mi",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. The Dr. Ron Davis Smoke-Free Air Law bans \"smoking\" in public places, workplaces and food-service establishments, but its definition covers only the \"burning\" of tobacco — e-cigs are not included. Vaping is restricted only by local ordinance; casinos are also exempt.",
      "source_url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-333-12601",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "mn",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Minnesota's Clean Indoor Air Act (Freedom to Breathe), amended 2019, defines \"smoking\" to include using an activated electronic delivery device, and both \"public place\" and \"place of employment\" expressly include restaurants and bars.",
      "source_url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/144.413",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "mo",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. Missouri's Indoor Clean Air Act defines \"smoking\" as possession of burning tobacco only — e-cigarettes are not included — and is weak even for smoke (permits designated smoking areas, exempts small restaurants and bars). Vaping is restricted only by local ordinance.",
      "source_url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=191.765",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ms",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide comprehensive smoke-free or indoor-vaping law; protection is adopted city-by-city through local ordinances. With no statewide clean-indoor-air act, indoor e-cigarette use is restricted only where a local ordinance applies.",
      "source_url": "https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/43,0,94,709.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "mt",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. Montana's Clean Indoor Air Act bans smoking in enclosed public places including bars, but \"smoking\" is combustion-only (lighted products) with no mention of e-cigarettes or vapor. Indoor vaping is limited only by local ordinance.",
      "source_url": "https://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/title_0500/chapter_0400/part_0010/section_0030/0500-0400-0010-0030.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "nc",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. North Carolina's smoke-free law defines \"smoking\" as the use of a LIGHTED tobacco product, so e-cigarettes are excluded, and the state ban reaches only restaurants and bars (and government buildings) — not general private workplaces. Vaping is restricted only by local ordinance.",
      "source_url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_130A/GS_130A-492.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "nd",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. North Dakota's 2012 voter-approved smoke-free law folds e-cigarettes into the definition of \"smoking\" and prohibits it in all enclosed public places and workplaces.",
      "source_url": "https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t23c12.pdf",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ne",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Nebraska's Clean Indoor Air Act (amended 2020) prohibits smoking in all public places and workplaces with no bar exemption, and its definition expressly includes use of an electronic smoking device creating an aerosol or vapor.",
      "source_url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=71-5727",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "nh",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. Under NH's Indoor Smoking Act, \"smoking\" includes e-cigarettes/vape pens (since 2019), and vaping is banned in restaurants and cocktail lounges (plus grocery stores, hospitals, schools). BUT general enclosed workplaces may permit it in \"effectively segregated smoking-permitted areas,\" so it is not banned in all workplaces.",
      "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XII/155/155-65.htm",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "nj",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in essentially all indoor public places and workplaces including restaurants and bars. New Jersey's Smoke-Free Air Act defines \"smoking\" to include inhaling/exhaling vapor from an electronic smoking device. Narrow exceptions: cigar bars/lounges and tobacco retail establishments.",
      "source_url": "https://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/tobacco/documents/nj_smokefree_air_act.pdf",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "nm",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. The Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act, amended 2019, defines \"smoking\" to include \"any use of an e-cigarette that creates an aerosol or vapor,\" and the amendment removed the former cigar-bar, casino, private-club and tobacco-store exemptions.",
      "source_url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0256.pdf",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "nv",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. The Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act (NRS 202.2483) bans vaping in indoor workplaces, restaurants, retail stores and grocery stores, and its definition includes electronic smoking devices — BUT it EXEMPTS casino gaming floors, age-restricted stand-alone bars/taverns (patrons under 21 barred), strip clubs, brothels, and tobacco stores, where vaping remains legal.",
      "source_url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-202.html",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ny",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in all indoor workplaces, bars, and food-service establishments. New York's Clean Indoor Air Act (Public Health Law 1399-o) provides that \"Smoking and vaping shall not be permitted\" in those places; e-cigarettes were added by the 2017 amendment.",
      "source_url": "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PBH/1399-O",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "oh",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Ohio's Smoke Free Workplace Act, amended effective Sept. 30, 2021, defines \"smoking\" to include electronic smoking devices and vapor products, with no bar exemption.",
      "source_url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3794.01",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ok",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide ban on indoor vaping in workplaces, restaurants, or bars. Oklahoma's smoke-in-public-places law covers only lighted tobacco; stand-alone bars are exempt and restaurants may keep ventilated smoking rooms. The state strongly preempts stricter local ordinances.",
      "source_url": "https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=437983",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "or",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Oregon added \"inhalant delivery systems\" (e-cigarettes/vape pens) to the Indoor Clean Air Act effective Jan. 1, 2016, requiring nearly all indoor workplaces and enclosed public places to be vapor-free.",
      "source_url": "https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENTIONWELLNESS/TOBACCOPREVENTION/SMOKEFREEWORKPLACELAW/Pages/thelaw.aspx",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "pa",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide indoor vaping ban. Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act defines \"smoking\" as a lighted (combustible) device only, so e-cigarettes are not covered; the Act also exempts bars, cigar bars, private clubs and part of casino floors. Philadelphia regulates e-cigs locally.",
      "source_url": "https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/HTM/2008/0/0027..HTM",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ri",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Rhode Island's Public Health and Workplace Safety Act defines \"smoking\" to include electronic cigarettes and ENDS, and the ban applies in all public places (including bars and restaurants) and workplaces.",
      "source_url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-20.10/23-20.10-2.htm",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "sc",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide vaping ban in workplaces, restaurants, or bars. South Carolina's Clean Indoor Air Act prohibits only combustible \"smoke or lighted smoking material\" and covers only limited venues (schools, health-care/government buildings, transit). E-cigs are not included; many localities have their own vaping ordinances.",
      "source_url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t44c095.php",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "sd",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, bars, and casinos. South Dakota's smoke-free law (2010) was amended effective July 1, 2019 to include e-cigarettes/vaping products in the definition of \"tobacco product,\" subjecting vaping to the same ban.",
      "source_url": "https://quittobaccosd.com/about/sd-tobacco-law",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "tn",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. Tennessee's Non-Smoker Protection Act bans smoking (and, since July 1, 2021, vaping) in enclosed public places including restaurants and workplaces — BUT exempts \"age-restricted venues\" (all patrons 21+), private clubs, and retail tobacco stores, so many bars are not covered.",
      "source_url": "https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0705&GA=112",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "tx",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. Texas Penal Code 48.01 bans operating an e-cigarette only in a specific list of public places — schools, elevators, enclosed theaters, libraries, museums, hospitals, and transit — NOT in general workplaces, restaurants, or bars. Many cities have broader local vaping bans.",
      "source_url": "https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.48.htm",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "ut",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Utah's Indoor Clean Air Act includes e-cigarette vapor in \"smoking\" and prohibits it in essentially all enclosed places with more than one employee or open to the public, plus clubs and taverns.",
      "source_url": "https://tobaccolaws.utah.gov/indoor-clean-air/",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "va",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide vaping ban. The Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act defines \"smoke/smoking\" as lighted (combustion) products only, so e-cigarettes are not covered; the statewide restaurant smoking rule therefore does not reach vaping. Localities may enact their own e-cigarette rules.",
      "source_url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title15.2/section15.2-2820/",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "vt",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "restricted",
      "summary": "Vaping is banned in indoor workplaces, restaurants, and bars. Vermont (18 V.S.A. 1421) prohibits use of \"tobacco substitutes\" — which includes e-cigarettes — in any workplace, and \"workplace\" is defined to include restaurants and bars.",
      "source_url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/18/028/01421",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "wa",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "conditional",
      "summary": "Partial. Washington's Clean Indoor Air Act covers only combustible smoking; the separate vapor-products statute (RCW 70.345.150) bans vaping only in a limited list of indoor areas — child-care facilities, schools (and within 500 ft), school buses, and elevators — not general workplaces, restaurants, or bars, which are left to local option.",
      "source_url": "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.345.150",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "wi",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide vaping ban. Wisconsin's smoke-free statute (101.123) bans combustible \"smoking\" in workplaces, restaurants, taverns and public places, but its definition is limited to lighted items containing tobacco — e-cigarettes/vapor are not included.",
      "source_url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/101.123",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "wv",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide clean-indoor-air or vaping law. West Virginia regulates smoking and vaping county-by-county through local boards of health (~29 counties include vaping). State-level vaping restrictions reach only schools, state vehicles, and correctional facilities.",
      "source_url": "https://kchd.wv.gov/environmental/Pages/Smoking-and-Vaping.aspx",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction_id": "wy",
      "category_id": "vaping",
      "subcategory_id": "vaping.indoor_use",
      "status": "info",
      "summary": "No statewide smoke-free or vaping law. Wyoming has never enacted a statewide clean-indoor-air law, so there is no statewide prohibition on vaping in workplaces, restaurants, or bars; regulation exists only through ~10 municipal ordinances (plus a state childcare-facility rule).",
      "source_url": "https://health.wyo.gov/publichealth/prevention/tobacco-prevention/",
      "verified_at": "2026-07-18"
    }
  ]
}