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Senate committee moves bill to shift tobacco licensure to DLL, add investigator and increase enforcement fees
Summary
The Senate Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs committee voted to report S.198 favorably with amendments that move wholesale tobacco licensure from the Department of Taxes to the Department of Liquor and Lottery, add an investigator position funded from the Tobacco Litigation Settlement Fund, and standardize larger civil penalties and license fees.
The Senate Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs committee on Dec. 27 advanced S.198, a package of amendments that reorganizes how Vermont licenses and enforces laws covering tobacco products and nicotine substitutes and creates a compliance investigator at the Department of Liquor and Lottery (DLL).
Jen Carvey of the Office of Legislative Council walked the committee through draft changes, saying, “This draft is on your committee page,” and explaining the proposal moves wholesale-dealer licensing and many definitions out of Title 32 (tax law) and into Title 7 under DLL so enforcement and licensure are handled in the division that already regulates alcohol and similar retail licensing. Carvey said the draft consolidates several wholesaler provisions into single sections and makes conforming edits across the tobacco chapters.
The bill standardizes civil penalties for sales without a license and aligns penalty language with…
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