State tobacco-related legislative bills that have been introduced in the past week are listed below alphabetically by state:

Arizona: Senate Bill 1245 requires a state tobacco retail license administered by the Department of Liquor Licenses and Control and preempts local jurisdictions regulation of tobacco product sales with some exceptions.

Colorado: House Bill 1064 prohibits the sale and distribution of all flavored cigarettes, tobacco products and nicotine products. The ban also includes flavored synthetic nicotine products. HB1064 has been referred to the House Health and Insurance Committee.

Hawaii: Senate Bill 2037 bans the sale of flavored tobacco products.

Mississippi: House Bill 892 taxes cigars, cheroots, stogies, snuff, chewing and smoking tobacco and all other tobacco products except cigarettes at the rate of 22.5% of the manufacturer’s list price. House Bill 1096 increases the tax on cigarettes by 50 cents per pack. Senate Bill 2729 prohibits the sale of single or loose unpacked cigarettes and provides that the Commissioner of Revenue shall ban the sale of tobacco from the physical premises in which a violation of this section occurs.

Missouri: House Bill 2467 allows any political subdivision to increase the tax on cigarettes and tobacco products subject to the approval of a majority of qualified voters.

New Mexico: House Bill 33 increases the tax on cigarettes by $2.00 per pack, increases the OTP tax (includes nicotine products, regardless of the source of the nicotine) to 77% of the product value, increases the tax on e-liquid to 77% of the product value, and increases the tax on closed system cartridges to $3.32 per cartridge. Senate Bill 39 increases the tax on cigarettes by $1.00 per pack, increases the OTP tax (includes nicotine products, regardless of the source of nicotine) to 60% of the product value, increases the tax on e-liquid to 60% of the product value, and increases the tax on closed system cartridges to $2.40 per cartridge.

New York: Assembly Bill 8884 requires electronic cigarette manufacturers to submit plans for the collection, transportation and recycling of electronic cigarettes to the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation. Requires manufacturers to accept the return of electronic cigarettes for recycling; requires vapor product dealers to accept the return of used electronic cigarettes for recycling.

Oklahoma: House Bill 3094 requires any retailer, distributor, or wholesaler that sells electronic cigarettes to have a license to sell such products from the ABLE Commission. This bill has been pre-filed for the 2022 session.

Virginia: House Bill 1199 addresses remote sellers regarding taxation and licensing.

Washington: House Bill 2039 bans the sale of vapor products containing nicotine salts and allows the state’s Secretary of Health to restrict sales of flavored vapor products and limit the allowable nicotine concentration in vapor products.

West Virginia: Senate Bill 426 increases the cigarette tax to $1.50 per pack and the e-cigarette liquid tax to $0.0975 per milliliter.