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LOUISIANA – Stop a Big Tobacco Protection Bill!
current status
Bill
Introduced
Passed
house
Passed
senate
Signed by
Governor
06.10.24 – Signed by Governor. Becomes act No. 567. Effective Date 06.10.24.
05.31.24 – [House] Sent to the Governor for Executive approval
05.28.24 – [Senate] Signed by the President of the Senate
05.28.24 – [House] Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
[Full history is available here]04.09.24 – [Senate] Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
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04.08.24 – Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 1. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
04.03.24 – Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading, Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2024.
04.02.24 – Reported favorably (12-0).
03.28.24 – House Committee on Judiciary (09:00:00 3/28/2024 Room 1)
03.11.24 – Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
03.01.24 – Prefiled, Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill (HB 621) known to advocates as “PMTA Registry” legislation has been signed into law and takes effect on June 10, 2024.
This law, Act No. 567, changeds Louisiana’s existing VAPE Directory law by further restricting where retailers can purchase the products they sell. Prior to passing HB 621, vape shops could buy directly from manufacturers. Now, shops are only be allowed to purchase from licensed wholesalers who make their own decisions about which products to keep in stock.
On its own, the “VAPE Directory” takes away consumers’ legal access to most products that are helping people quit smoking. The addition of a bottleneck at the wholesale level puts even more pressure on consumers to seek out alternative, informal sources for safer nicotine products. This law risks puting independent vape shops out of business, hundreds of workers out of jobs, and thousands of people at risk of returning to smoking, or delaying attempts at quitting.
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