Bill Text: TX SB228 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a municipality to limit the possession, purchase, consumption, sale, distribution, or receipt of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-30 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB228 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB228-Introduced.html
  85R834 JSC-D
 
  By: Uresti S.B. No. 228
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a municipality to limit the
  possession, purchase, consumption, sale, distribution, or receipt
  of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 161.089, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 161.089.  PREEMPTION OF LOCAL LAW.  (a)  This subchapter
  does not preempt a local regulation of the sale, distribution, or
  use of cigarettes or tobacco products or affect the authority of a
  political subdivision to adopt or enforce an ordinance or
  requirement relating to the sale, distribution, or use of
  cigarettes or tobacco products if the regulation, ordinance, or
  requirement:
               (1)  is compatible with and equal to or more stringent
  than a requirement prescribed by this subchapter; or
               (2)  relates to an issue that is not specifically
  addressed by this subchapter or Chapter 154 or 155, Tax Code.
         (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a municipality may
  adopt an ordinance prohibiting or limiting the sale or distribution
  of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products to a person under
  21 years of age.  Sections 161.088 and 161.090 do not apply to the
  enforcement of an ordinance adopted as described by this
  subsection.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter N, Chapter 161, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 161.258 to read as follows:
         Sec. 161.258.  LOCAL REGULATION OF CIGARETTES,
  E-CIGARETTES, OR TOBACCO PRODUCTS. (a) A municipality may adopt an
  ordinance prohibiting or limiting the possession, purchase,
  consumption, or receipt of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco
  products by a person under 21 years of age.
         (b)  Sections 161.252-161.257 do not apply to the
  enforcement of an ordinance adopted as described by this section.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an ordinance adopted on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An ordinance adopted before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the ordinance was adopted,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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