Bill Text: TX HB2118 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the advertising of e-cigarettes in certain locations; imposing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Public Health [HB2118 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2118-Introduced.html
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| By: Shaheen | H.B. No. 2118 | |
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| relating to prohibiting the advertising of e-cigarettes in certain | ||
| locations; imposing a fee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter K, Chapter 161, Health | ||
| and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER K. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN CIGARETTE, E-CIGARETTE, OR | ||
| TOBACCO PRODUCT ADVERTISING; FEE | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 161.121, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subdivision (2-a) to read as follows: | ||
| (2-a) "E-cigarette" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 161.081. | ||
| SECTION 3. Sections 161.122(a), (b), and (e), Health and | ||
| Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by this section, a sign containing an | ||
| advertisement for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products | ||
| may not be located closer than 1,000 feet to a church or school. | ||
| (b) The measurement of the distance between the sign | ||
| containing an advertisement for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or | ||
| tobacco products and an institution listed in Subsection (a) is | ||
| from the nearest property line of the institution to a point on a | ||
| street or highway closest to the sign, along street lines and in | ||
| direct lines across intersections. | ||
| (e) Subsection (a) does not apply to a sign containing an | ||
| advertisement for cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products | ||
| that, before September 1, 1997, was located closer than 1,000 feet | ||
| to a church or school but that was not located closer than 500 feet | ||
| to the church or school. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 161.123(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A purchaser of advertising is liable for and shall remit | ||
| to the comptroller a fee that is 10 percent of the gross sales price | ||
| of any outdoor advertising of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and tobacco | ||
| products in this state. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
