The Senate Bill 571 Rules Advisory Committee will meet at 3:00pm on February 21 in Room 612, at the Portland State Office Building, 800 NE Oregon Street, Portland,Oregon 97232.

The law is designed to protect workers from secondhand smoke, which can cause life-threatening disease: "an employer shall provide a place of employment that is free of tobacco smoke for all employees."

A place of employment is "every enclosed area under the control of a public or private employer that employees frequent during the course of employment."