State tobacco-related legislative bills that have been acted on by a state legislative committee or state legislature are listed below alphabetically by state:

Arizona: Senate Bill 1009, which, as amended, allows a retailer to sell electronic smoking devices by delivery provided the retailer registers with the Attorney General’s office and complies with several other requirements including third-party age verification prior to delivery, passed the Senate on February 12, 2019.

Colorado: House Bill 1033, which authorizes a county to enact minimum sales legislation for tobacco products, provided the ordinance is more stringent than state law, authorizes cities, towns and counties to impose fees, licenses or taxes on cigarette sales, removes the current provision that prohibits localities from enacting separate cigarette tax ordinances in order to receive a portion of state cigarette tax revenue, and authorizes a county to impose a special sales tax on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products through a vote by the people within the county, was considered in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on February 14, 2019.

Hawaii: House Bill 276, which would, as amended bans the sale of all flavored tobacco products (except menthol), passed the House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee on February 13. House Bill 387, which as amended prohibits the shipment and transport of tobacco products ordered or purchased through a remote sale to anyone other than a licensee, increases the license fee for tobacco retailer permits from $20 to $50, and changes the tobacco tax on all tobacco products other than cigars by an unspecified amount, passed the House Committee on Health on February 8, 2019. Senate Bill 182, which would repeal state preemption of local laws concerning the regulation of tobacco products and allow counties to adopt laws at least as stringent as state law, passed the Senate Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs on February 11, 2019. Senate Bill 887, which would increase the cigarette tax $1.00 per pack from $3.20 per pack to $4.20 per pack, passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health on February 13, 2019 with an amendment (not yet available). Senate Bill 1009, which would ban the sale of flavored tobacco products, passed Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health on February 13, 2019, with an amendment (not yet available). Senate Bill 1016, which would prohibit the sale of tobacco within 750 feet of preschools, schools and public playgrounds, and deny licensing or renewals of tobacco retailers within that radius beginning January 1, 2020, passed the Senate Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health and Judiciary on February 13, 2019 with an amendment (not yet available). Senate Bill 1244, which clarifies that violations of the provision for sales of tobacco products to persons under 21 are imposed on the retailer, not the employee making the sale, passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health on February 13, 2019, with an amendment (not yet available). Senate Bill 1405, which taxes e-liquids at 70% of the wholesale price and increases the annual retailer license fee from $20 to $50, passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health on February 13, 2019, with an amendment (not yet available).

Indiana: Senate Bill 271, which eliminates a state requirement that an e liquid manufacturer or a closed system vapor product manufacturer include certain information on an e liquid container; removes a duplicative provision that requires the label of an e liquid container to indicate if the product contains nicotine, passed the Senate on February 7, 2019. House Bill 1444, which taxes electronic cigarettes that contain nicotine at $.04 per milliliter is up for third reading in the House on February 12, 2019.

North Dakota: House Bill 1477, which was amended to prohibit the sale of flavored e-liquid and electronic smoking devices to minors, passed the House and moved to the Senate on February 11, 2019. The original version of the bill banned the sale of flavored e-liquid to legal age adults. Senate Bill 2137, which would have exempted cigar bars from s tate smoking prohibitions, provided the smoking of all other tobacco products other than cigars is prohibited on the premises of the cigar bar, failed to pass the Senate on February 13, 2019.

Oregon: The following bills were referred to the House Revenue Committee after receiving no recommendation from the House Health Care Committee on February 8, 2019: House Bill 2123 imposes a tax on vapor products at the following rates: 95% of the wholesale price of inhalant form nicotine that is sold separately from an inhalant delivery system or sold in a disposable cartridge used in an inhalant delivery system and 70% of the wholesale price of an inhalant delivery system that is sold containing inhalant form nicotine and does not require any additional components for use; House Bill 2158 removes the per cigar limitation (50 cents) on the state cigar tax. House Bill 2159 and House Bill 2169 impose a tax on vapor products at the rate of 95% of the wholesale price. House Bill 2270 increases the tax on cigarettes by $2.00 per pack, includes inhalant delivery devices on the definition of tobacco products, thus imposing the OTP tax rate of 65% of the wholesale price on vapor products, and removes the per cigar limitation (50 cents) on the state cigar tax.

Tennessee: Senate Bill 280, which increases the legal age restrictions for tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age, will be heard in the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee on February 19, 2019.

Vermont: Senate Bill 86, which increases the legal age for buying and using cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21, was heard in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on February 14, 2019.

Virginia: House Bill 2748/Senate Bill 1727, which increase the purchase age for tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age, are eligible for the Governor to consider signing on February 14, 2019.

Washington: House Bill 1074, which increases the legal purchase age for tobacco products and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age, passed the House Appropriations Committee on February 13, 2019.

West Virginia: Senate Bill 348, which increases the purchase age for tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age, was passed on to the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 13, 2019.