Bill Text: TX HB2118 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the advertising of e-cigarettes in certain locations; imposing a fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Public Health [HB2118 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2118-Introduced.html
  88R10784 SRA-D
 
  By: Shaheen H.B. No. 2118
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to prohibiting the advertising of e-cigarettes in certain
  locations; imposing a fee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Subchapter K, Chapter 161, Health
  and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER K. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN CIGARETTE, E-CIGARETTE, OR
  TOBACCO PRODUCT ADVERTISING; FEE
         SECTION 2.  Section 161.121, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subdivision (2-a) to read as follows:
               (2-a)  "E-cigarette" has the meaning assigned by
  Section 161.081.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 161.122(a), (b), and (e), Health and
  Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided by this section, a sign containing an
  advertisement for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products
  may not be located closer than 1,000 feet to a church or school.
         (b)  The measurement of the distance between the sign
  containing an advertisement for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or
  tobacco products and an institution listed in Subsection (a) is
  from the nearest property line of the institution to a point on a
  street or highway closest to the sign, along street lines and in
  direct lines across intersections.
         (e)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a sign containing an
  advertisement for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products
  that, before September 1, 1997, was located closer than 1,000 feet
  to a church or school but that was not located closer than 500 feet
  to the church or school.
         SECTION 4.  Section 161.123(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A purchaser of advertising is liable for and shall remit
  to the comptroller a fee that is 10 percent of the gross sales price
  of any outdoor advertising of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and tobacco
  products in this state.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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