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Committee clears cigar-lounge bill with pipe-tobacco removal, 4-2
Summary
The Senate Finance and Taxation Committee voted 4-2 to advance House Bill 14-40 after amending the bill to remove pipe tobacco from the indoor-smoking exemption and to change a drafting term.
The Senate Finance and Taxation Committee advanced House Bill 14-40, a proposal to clarify permitting for cigar lounges, after adopting an amendment that removed pipe tobacco from the exemption and made a drafting-word change. The committee passed the bill as amended by a 4-2 vote.
Representative Dan Ruby of District 38, the bill sponsor, told the committee the bill fixes an implementation problem from last session’s enactment by allowing a new cigar lounge to operate in its first year and meet the statutory 15% cigar-and-pipe-sales threshold at the end of that year rather than requiring proof of prior sales on day one. "If they don't, they don't get a renewal," Ruby said, describing the change as a cleanup to allow startups to…
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