Bills › 88th General Assembly
Establishing the minimum age relative to various activities relating to vapor products, and making penalties applicable
Topics:Courts & civil law
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 16, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2019
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the minimum age relative to various activities relating to vapor products. The bill increases the minimum age relative to vapor products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. The bill prohibits a person from selling, giving, or otherwise supplying any vapor products to any person under 21 years of age. The bill also prohibits a person under 21 years of age from smoking, using, possessing, purchasing, or attempting to purchase any vapor products. 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 vapor products; compliance efforts; sale of vapor products through vending machines; the giving away of samples of vapor products to persons under 21 years of age and within 500 feet of certain locations; and the mailing, shipping, or other delivery of vapor products.
Read the full explanation
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 vapor products to any person under 21 years of age is guilty of a simple misdemeanor. An employee of a retailer who sells, gives, or otherwise supplies any vapor products to any person under 21 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 21 years of age who smokes, uses, possesses, purchases, or attempts to purchase any vapor products is subject to performance of community service hours ranging from 8 hours for a first offense to 16 hours for a third or subsequent offense.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 17, 2019. On January 31, 2019 it recommended passage.
- Sen. Tom Shipley REmail
- Sen. Jake Chapman R
- Sen. R. Taylor
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
11 for · 2 against · 11 undecided · Who →
Similar bills
- HF 2135 Establishing the minimum age relative to various activities relating to tobacco, tobacco p…88th General Assembly · WithdrawnVery similar
- SF 607 Establishing the minimum age relative to various activities relating to tobacco, tobacco p…88th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passageSimilar
Matched by wording or an identical title.