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Establishing the minimum age relative to various activities relating to tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, and cigarettes, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the Senate State Government Committee
Topics:State government
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2020
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 13, 2020
- Done: Passes the SenateMarch 4, 202043–6
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseJune 11, 202084–13
- Done: To the GovernorJune 16, 2020
- Done: Signed into lawJune 29, 2020
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What’s in it
This bill increases the minimum age relative to various activities relating to tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, and cigarettes from years of age to years of age. The bill prohibits a person from selling, giving, or otherwise supplying any tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes to any person under years of age. The bill also prohibits a person under years of age from smoking, using, possessing, purchasing, or attempting to purchase any tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes.
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The bill makes conforming changes in the Code relative to use of a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card by an underage person to obtain tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes; compliance efforts; sale of tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes through vending machines; the giving away of samples of tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes to persons under years of age and within 500 feet of certain locations; and the mailing, shipping, or other delivery of alternative nicotine products or vapor products. A person holding a permit, including a retailer, who violates a provision of the bill is subject to civil penalties and permit suspension or revocation provisions based on the number of violations. A person other than a retailer who sells, gives, or otherwise supplies any tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes to any person under years of age is guilty of a simple misdemeanor. An employee of a retailer who sells, gives, or otherwise supplies any tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes to any person under years of age commits a simple misdemeanor punishable as a scheduled violation ranging from $100 to $500 based upon the number of violations. A person under years of age who smokes, uses, possesses, purchases, or attempts to purchase any tobacco, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, vapor products, or cigarettes is subject to performance of community service hours ranging from hours for a first offense to hours for a third or subsequent offense. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2020 (as SSB 3016). On January 21, 2020 it recommended passage.
- Sen. Chris Cournoyer R
- Sen. Claire Celsi D
- Sen. R. Smith
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Fiscal note
Senate File 2268 conforms State law with federal law, which was effective in December 2019. The fiscal impact listed on the following table relates to the implementation and enforcement of the federal Further Consolidated Appropriations Act for FFY 2020.
- Final Fiscal Note – Tobacco and Vaping, Minimum Age · June 30, 2020
- Tobacco and Vaping, Minimum Age · June 11, 2020
- Tobacco and Vaping, Minimum Age · March 2, 2020
- Tobacco and Vaping, Minimum Age · February 18, 2020
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Lobbying
28 for · 1 against · 31 undecided · Who →
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