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2022 RHODE ISLAND TOBACCO LEGISLATION
Listed below are ALL the 2022 Rhode Island Bills that have anything to do with tobacco and/or nicotine.
Tobacco Free RI does not take a position on any of them.
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Tobacco Tax, Tobacco Control Funding & the State Budget
House Bill No. 7122 (FY22 Enacted Budget)
(Governor McKee)
BY Abney
ENTITLED, AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2022
*01/20/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance
House Bill No. 7123 (FY23 Proposed Budget)
(Governor McKee)
BY Abney
ENTITLED, AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2023
*01/20/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance
House Bill No. 7725
BY Cortvriend, Knight, Tanzi, Speakman, Kislak, Cassar, Caldwell, Henries
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES (Allows cities and towns to create ordinances to regulate use and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.)
House Bill No. 7881
BY Tanzi, Cortvriend, Felix, McGaw, Batista, Donovan, Ranglin-Vassell, Shallcross Smith, Kislak
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH -- TOBACCO PRODUCT SALES' RESTRICTIONS (Prohibits the sale of certain flavored tobacco products and electronic nicotine-delivery systems with exemptions for compassion centers and licensed cultivations registered with the department of business regulation.)
Regulating the Sale & Use of Tobacco Products Locally
Senate Bill No. 2658
BY Sosnowski, Coyne, Miller
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES (Allows cities and towns to create ordinances to regulate use and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.)
House Bill No. 7725
BY Cortvriend, Knight, Tanzi, Speakman, Kislak, Cassar, Caldwell, Henries
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ORDINANCES (Allows cities and towns to create ordinances to regulate use and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.)
Regulating the Sale & Use of Tobacco Products State-Wide
Senate Bill No. 2117
BY Miller, Valverde, Euer, Zurier, Seveney, DiMario
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any flavored electronic nicotine delivery system.)
*01/25/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
House Bill No. 7232
(by request)
BY Cortvriend
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- CIGARETTE AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX (Includes an automobile or truck as a place of business to sell tobacco products, including mobile tobacco sales.)
*01/28/2022 Introduced, referred to House Corporations
Regulating the Sale & Use of Tobacco Products State-Wide
House Bill No. 7869
BY Casey
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any flavored electronic nicotine-delivery system.)
House Bill No. 7871
BY Tanzi, Cortvriend
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any flavored electronic nicotine delivery system.)
House Bill No. 7870
BY Tanzi, Felix, McGaw, Ajello, Batista
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Prohibits the sale of certain flavored tobacco products and electronic nicotine-delivery systems with exemptions for compassion centers and licensed cultivators registered with the Rhode Island department of business regulation.)
Pharmacies
Senate Bill No. 2329
BY Valverde, Lawson, DiMario, Seveney, Miller
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - PHARMACIES (Authorizes a licensed pharmacist, who successfully completes a course on tobacco cessation therapy, to prescribe and dispense tobacco cessation drug products to a qualified patient pursuant to rules adopted by the board of pharmacy.)
*02/15/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services
House Bill No. 7805
BY Caldwell
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- SALE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN PHARMACIES (Prohibits the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies and would provide for a civil penalty of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each violation.)
House Bill No. 7874
BY Tanzi, Felix, McGaw, Batista, Donovan, Ranglin-Vassell, Kislak
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES (Authorizes a licensed pharmacist, who successfully completes a course on tobacco cessation therapy, to prescribe and dispense FDA-approved tobacco cessation drug products to a qualified patient pursuant to rules adopted by the board of pharmacy.)
House Bill No. 7875
BY Tanzi, Cortvriend
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES (Authorizes a licensed pharmacist, who successfully completes a course on tobacco cessation therapy, to prescribe and dispense tobacco cessation drug products to a qualified patient pursuant to rules adopted by the board of pharmacy.)
Smoke-free Workplaces
House Bill No. 7186
BY Diaz, Corvese, Amore, Biah
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT (Provides that any law or regulation which protects a person from exposure to secondhand smoke would also provide protection from exposure to secondhand tobacco and marijuana smoke, regardless of how the smoke was generated.)
*01/26/2022 Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
House Bill No. 7855
BY Tanzi, McGaw, Felix, Ajello, Batista, Donovan, Ranglin-Vassell
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT (Repeals the exemption granted to pari mutual facilities and casinos from the smoke free workplace requirement contained in the Public Health and Workplace Safety Act.)f
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