Definitions

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As used in this subchapter:

  1. (1) “Campus” means all property, including buildings and grounds, that are owned or operated by a state-supported institution of higher education;

  2. (2) “E-cigarette” means an electronic oral device that provides a vapor of nicotine or other substance that, when used or inhaled, simulates smoking, including without limitation a device that:

    1. (A) Is composed of a heating element, battery, or electronic circuit or a combination of heating element, battery, and electronic circuit;

    2. (B) Works in combination with a liquid nicotine delivery device composed, either in whole or in part, of pure nicotine and propylene glycol and manufactured for use with e-cigarettes; and

    3. (C) Is manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, e-pipe, or under any other name or descriptor;

  3. (3) “Employee” means an individual who is employed by a state-supported institution of higher education in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit;

  4. (4) “Governing authority” means the administrative branch of the state-supported institution of higher education;

  5. (5) “Guest” means a visitor to the campus of a state-supported institution of higher education;

  6. (6) “Secondhand smoke” means smoke:

    1. (A) Emitted from lighted, smoldering, or burning tobacco when the person is not inhaling;

    2. (B) Emitted at the mouthpiece during puff drawing; and

    3. (C) Exhaled by the person smoking;

  7. (7) “Smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any:

    1. (A) Lighted tobacco product, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco; and

    2. (B) Other lighted combustible plant material; and

  8. (8) “Student” means an individual enrolled in a credit or noncredit course at a state-supported institution of higher education.


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