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

California: Assembly Bill 1690 bans the sale of cigarettes with single use filters and single use e-cigarette devices.

Hawaii: House Bill 1570 bans the sale of flavored tobacco and synthetic nicotine products, prohibits marketing electronic smoking devices to appeal to underage persons, and defines heated smoking products as electronic smoking devices. House Bill 1661 taxes electronic smoking devices at 70% of the wholesale price (35% for modified risk products). House Bills 1698 and 2150 and Senate Bills 2563 and 3118 ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. House Bill 1925 imposes a tax of 20% on electronic smoking devices and 10 cents per milliliter of e-liquid. House Bill 2151 and Senate Bills 2278 and 3119 tax electronic smoking devices and e-liquids at 70% of the wholesale price.

Illinois: Senate Bill 3854 prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and vapor products (includes menthol). Senate Bill 3728 prohibits the excise tax on cigars from exceeding 50 cents per cigar.

Maryland: House Bill 442, (same as SB249) authorizes Baltimore City to enact and enforce local laws to regulate the sale and distribution of cigarettes, other tobacco products and electronic smoking devices (excludes taxes and issuance of licenses).

New Mexico: Senate Bill 142 imposes a tax on "fine cigars" at the rate of 10% of the product value, not to exceed 10 cents per cigar. "Fine Cigar" is defined as a roll of tobacco that is wrapped in one hundred percent natural leaf tobacco. CORRECTION: Senate Bill 49 (inaccurately reported as Senate Bill 39 in last week’s update) 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.

Rhode Island: Senate Bill 2117 prohibits the sale of any flavored electronic nicotine delivery system (includes menthol).

Utah: Senate Bill 130 exempts e-cigarette products receiving FDA marketing authorization from nicotine content limitations.

Virginia: Senate Bill 748 (same as House Bill 1199) addresses remote sellers regarding taxation, licensing and record keeping; would lower OTP tax rates. House Bill 1357 lowers OTP tax rates and caps the cigar tax at $.30 per cigar. House Bill 685 requires tobacco retailers (including ENDs retailers) to obtain a license from the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Authority.