E-Cig State Laws in 2022

E-cigs included in indoor smoking ban.

SB 648 (update: tabled until January), which has already passed the California Senate, has been assigned to the California Assembly Committee on Government Organization. If enacted, this bill would ban the use of vapor products wherever smoking is banned. Among those provisions most likely to impact users are those that would:

- Ban e-cigarette use in virtually all workplaces in California, including in hospitals. Violations would be punishable by fines of $100, $200, and $500. (Section 12)

- Ban e-cigarette use inside or within 20 feet of any public building or in a vehicle owned by the state. (Section 4)

- Declares that the use of electronic cigarettes “may be a hazard to the health of the general public,” and would include e-cigarettes in all future smoking bans passed in California. (Section 11)

- Ban e-cigarette use in railroads and air carriers. (Section 13)

Union City: Law goes into effect Jan 10 that will classify e-cigs as regular tobacco products. Restricting their use in public places. Prohibited on school grounds, child care facilities, in healthcare facilities, and in indoor State Fair facilities and within 20 feet thereof.

SB 990 would:

- Ban the use of e-cigarettes in any public place where smoking is prohibited.

- Because Connecticut law bans "smoking" in any tobacco shop that has changed its size or opened since the end of 2002, e-cigarette usage would also be banned in brick & mortar e-cigarette stores stores across Connecticut.

E-cigs included in indoor smoking bans.

Update 8/22/14 - HB5689 Passed.
HB5689:
- Require all e-cigarette liquids to be sold in "special packaging" and require the Illinois Department of Public Health to establish standards for such packaging
- BAN the sale of all e-cigarette liquids in Illinois until these regulations are enacted.

HB 713 would increase the state's smokeless tobacco tax by 100%.

Update 4-18-2013: Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

HP 950: On May 15, 2013, the Joint Committee on Taxation gave a Do Not Pass Recommendation to HP 950. Maine vapers are safe for now.

Update 10-30-13: Bill that would ban e-cig sales to minors, prohibit use on school grounds and regulate use in public spaces and workplaces has been OK'd by the Committee on Public Health. The bill is now making its way through the Massachusetts State House.

A.B. 7106 would:

- Define electronic cigarette products containing nicotine to be "tobacco products" under New York law by redefining the term to mean any product "containing tobacco or nicotine that is intended or expected to be consumed."

- Impose a 95% wholesale tax on e-cigarette sales.

- Increase New York's tax on smokeless tobacco from 75% to 95%, a 27% increase.

- Require e-cigarette vendors to obtain a tobacco retail license to sell e-cigarettes. (see N.Y. TAX LAW § 480-A)

Int 1020 & Int 1021 would:

- Redefine "tobacco products" under New York City law to include e-cigarettes and related components, parts, and accessories (both ordinances)

- Ban the display of e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in retail stores (Int 1020-2013)

- Ban the sale of e-cigarettes or e-liquid in flavors other than tobacco, menthol, mint and wintergreen in areas other than an age-restricted "tobacco bar." New York City law prohibits "tobacco bars" that were not open in 2001, and thus even an e-cigarette store in New York City would be prohibited from selling flavored e-cigarettes. (Int 1021-2013)

- Mandate that e-cigarette products and parts, components, and accessories only be sod in their original packaging (Int 1021-2013)

Kitsap County is attempting to add e-cigarettes to smoking ban.