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Committee passes bill restricting e-liquids from designated foreign adversaries, keeps 3-year tobacco certificate
Summary
Senate Bill 185, carried in the House by Representative Heath Van Adder and presented by Senator Alting, would ban specified e-liquid products manufactured or sourced from designated foreign adversary countries; the committee adopted conforming amendments and kept the tobacco sales certificate term at three years after testimony from industry and agency officials.
Senator Alting told the committee that Senate Bill 185 responds to concerns raised by the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission about certain e-liquid products sourced from foreign adversary countries, citing products from China as the primary example.
"Basically, this bill came before us because China, as an example, has products in our vape source that are, according to the ATC and others, are very, very bad products," Senator Alting said, arguing the measure would block products…
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