Bill Text: VA HB1119 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-13 - Left in Counties, Cities and Towns [HB1119 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-HB1119-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1119 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 10, 2024 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-912.4, relating to local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. ---------- Patron-- Seibold ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-912.4 as follows:

§15.2-912.4. Regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations.

Any locality may by ordinance regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, as such terms are defined in §18.2-371.2, or hemp products intended for smoking, as such term is defined in §3.2-4112, for any such retail sale location and may prohibit a retail sale location on property within 1,000 linear feet of a public, private, or parochial school. An ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall not affect any retail sale location of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking operating before July 1, 2024.