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

Minnesota: House File 331, which increases the tobacco sales age to 21 years of age and adds charter schools to the prohibition of tobacco in schools, passed the Ways and Means Committee as amended on April 27, 2020. The amendment removed the retail violation report requirement. The bill was sent to the House General Register to await action on the House floor.

Virginia: House Bill 30, the Governor’s budget bill, was passed and signed into law. The bill increases the cigarette tax from the current $.30/pack to $.60/pack; raises the tax on other tobacco products from the current 10% to 20%, doubles the current weight-based tax on moist smokeless tobacco from $.18 per ounce to $.36 per ounce, and implements a new tax on liquid nicotine products at a rate of $0.066 or 6.6 cents per milliliter. The effective date for all of these tax changes is July 1, 2020.