Bill Text: PA HB63 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for sale or possession of tobacco by a minor.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 21-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-26 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB63 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB63-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 45
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 63 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY PERRY, BAKER, BOYD, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, KAUFFMAN, MILLER, MOUL, O'NEILL, REED, ROAE, ROCK, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SWANGER AND VULAKOVICH, JANUARY 26, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 26, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for sale or
possession of tobacco by a minor.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6305(a.1) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 6305. Sale of tobacco.
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(a.1) Purchase or possession.--A minor is guilty of a
summary offense if the minor:
(1) purchases or attempts to purchase a tobacco product;
[or]
(1.1) possesses a tobacco product; or
(2) knowingly falsely represents himself to be at least
18 years of age to a person for the purpose of purchasing or
receiving a tobacco product.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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