Bill Text: IN HB1031 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Study committee on self rolled cigarettes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-25 - Committee report: amend do pass, adopted [HB1031 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2012-HB1031-Introduced.html


Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1031

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 35-46-1-11.8.

Synopsis: Tobacco self-service displays. Allows a retail establishment to sell or distribute cigars and pipe tobacco through a self-service display. (Current law provides that the owner of a retail establishment that sells or distributes tobacco products through a self-service display commits a Class C infraction.)

Effective: Upon passage.





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    January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Policy.







Introduced

Second Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2012)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1031



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning alcohol and tobacco.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 35-46-1-11.8; (12)IN1031.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 35-46-1-11.8, AS AMENDED BY P.L.10-2011, SECTION 3, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 11.8. (a) As used in this section, "self-service display" means a display that contains tobacco in an area where a customer:
        (1) is permitted; and
        (2) has access to the tobacco without assistance from a sales person.
    (b) This section does not apply to a self-service display located in a retail establishment that:
        (1) has a primary purpose to sell tobacco; and
        (2) prohibits entry by persons who are less than eighteen (18) years of age.
    (c) The owner of a retail establishment that sells or distributes tobacco, other than cigars and pipe tobacco, through a self-service display, other than a coin operated machine operated under IC 35-46-1-11 or IC 35-46-1-11.5, commits a Class C infraction.
    (d) Notwithstanding IC 34-28-5-5(c), civil penalties collected under this section must be deposited in the Richard D. Doyle youth tobacco education and enforcement fund (IC 7.1-6-2-6).
SOURCE: ; (12)IN1031.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. An emergency is declared for this act.

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