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Panel backs requiring product‑specific licenses for electronic smoking devices
Summary
Supporters told the House Economic Matters Committee that SB 249 would close a regulatory gap by requiring product‑specific licenses for electronic smoking devices, improve tax compliance and let health departments identify where vape products are sold without adding fees for retailers already licensed for cigarettes or other tobacco products.
Sydney Hamilton, a legislative fellow for the Senate Finance Committee, told the House Economic Matters Committee that SB 249 would require manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and importers of electronic smoking devices (ESDs) to obtain product‑specific licenses already authorized under Maryland law and would not impose new fees on retailers who already hold cigarette or other tobacco product (OTP) licenses.
"While the bill requires retailers to obtain a license endorsement for each product type sold, it does not create new fees or increase…
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