Since reopening to the public in July, Atlantic City's nine casinos have been blocked from permitting their guests to smoke indoors, due to COVID-19 concerns.
Sen. Shirley Turner, D-Mercer, a primary sponsor of the measure, said she's been waiting 20 years for a law like this to become reality in the Garden State.
State Senator Shirley Turner has introduced a bill every legislative session for the past 10 years but says people, especially legislators, don't like change.
A proposed constitutional amendment will be before voters next November, after it barely achieved the needed three-fifths supermajority in the Legislature.
Final legislative approval of medical marijuana expansion is likely June 10. Senate tweaked the bill to further encourage the industry's workers to unionize.