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

Indiana: Senate Bill 382, which includes the following: caps the tax on cigars with a wholesale price exceeding $3.00 per cigar at $.72 each; taxes alternative nicotine products, as defined, at $0.40 per ounce; taxes closed system cartridges at 15% of the wholesale price; requires remote sellers, as defined, to be licensed and subject to tobacco taxes, passed from the Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee as amended on January 25, 2022.

Maine: LD1423 / HP1039, which doubles the cigarette and OTP tax rates, was on the work session agenda of the Joint Committee on Taxation for January 27, 2022. LD 1693 / HP1258, which bans flavored products (including menthol), doubles the cigarette tax to $4.00 per pack and increases OTP taxes by 100%, is scheduled for a hearing in the Joint Committee on Health and Human Services on February 4, 2022.

Maryland: Senate Bill 249, which 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), is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on February 3, 2022. Senate Bill 99, which authorizes a county or municipality 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), was heard in the Senate Finance Committee on January 27, 2022.

New Jersey: Assembly Bill 6020, which requires tobacco products retailers (excludes cigar shops) to carry and offer for sale at least one nicotine replacement therapy, drug, device or combination product that has been approved by the FDA for tobacco cessation use, passed the Senate on January 10th and was signed by the Governor and enacted on January 18, 2022.

New Mexico: House Bill 33, which 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, was tabled in the House Health and Human Services Committee on January 26, 2022.

Virginia: Senate Bill 25 (same as House Bill 1076), which requires any locality that increases its tax rate on cigarettes to allow a person with unsold inventory to pay the tax increase on the unsold inventory by filing a return for one calendar year after the tax increase; defines "unsold inventory" for the purposes of this provision to mean cigarettes held prior to the tax rate increase, passed the Senate on January 24, 2022.