Bill Text: HI HB1778 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Tobacco Products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-15 - Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Garcia voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Kong, Pierick voting no (2) and Representative(s) Garrett, Matayoshi, Perruso, Sayama, Takayama excused (5). [HB1778 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB1778-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Amend existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preemption power extends solely to the taxation of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices; and
(2) Clarify that counties retain the authority to adopt ordinances and regulations that regulate smoking or the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices, as long as the ordinances do not conflict with and are more stringent than the state law on smoking and do not impose a fee or tax on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices.
SECTION 2. Section 328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§328J-11.5[]]
Statewide concern. (a) [Sales] The taxation of
cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices are a statewide
concern. It is the intent of the
legislature to regulate the [sale] taxation of cigarettes,
tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices in a uniform and exclusive
manner.
(b) All local ordinances or regulations that
regulate the [sale] taxation of cigarettes, tobacco products, and
electronic smoking devices are preempted[, and existing local laws
and regulations conflicting with this chapter are null and void].
(c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to
limit a county's authority [under] to enact ordinances or regulations
that regulate smoking or the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and
electronic smoking devices within the county in accordance with section
328J-15[.]; provided that any ordinance or regulation imposed by the
county that imposes a fee or tax on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products,
or electronic smoking devices in conflict with this chapter shall be null and
void."
SECTION 3. Section 328J-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a
county from enacting ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of
cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices within the county;
provided that the ordinances or regulations do not directly conflict with and
are more stringent than the provisions of this chapter[.];
provided further that a county shall not enact an ordinance or regulation that
imposes a fee or tax on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or electronic
smoking devices that is in conflict with this chapter."
SECTION 4. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the Act that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory
material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000; provided that sections 2 and 3 shall take effect on July 1, 2026.
Report Title:
Cigarettes, Tobacco Products, and Electronic Smoking Devices; Taxation; Sale; Regulation; County Authority
Description:
Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preemption power extends solely to the taxation of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and allows counties to adopt ordinances and regulations that regulate smoking or the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices that do not conflict with and are more stringent than the state law that governs smoking. Prohibits the counties from enacting an ordinance or a regulation that imposes a fee or tax on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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