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HI HB246
Bill
Status
1/20/2017
Primary Sponsor
Della au Belatti
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AI Summary
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Imposes an excise tax on e-liquid sold by wholesalers or dealers on and after January 1, 2018, at the same rate as other tobacco products.
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Requires all retailers engaged in selling cigarettes, tobacco products, electronic smoking devices, or e-liquid to obtain a retail tobacco permit.
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Increases the wholesaler/dealer license fee from $2.50 to $250 annually.
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Increases the retail tobacco permit fee from $20 to $50 annually, with duplicate permits costing $5 per copy.
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Adds definitions for electronic smoking devices, e-liquid, reusable electronic smoking devices, and disposable electronic smoking devices to Hawaii's tobacco tax statutes.
Legislative Description
Relating To Chapter 245, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
Electronic Smoking Devices
Last Action
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) McDermott voting no (1) and Representative(s) DeCoite, Tokioka excused (2).
2/17/2017