S.86 (Act 27)
An act relating to increasing the legal age for buying and using cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 years of age
Sponsors:
Sen. Virginia Lyons, Sen. Deborah Ingram
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Sen. Philip Baruth, Sen. Alison Clarkson
Last Recorded Action: 5/16/2019 - Senate Message, Signed by Governor May 16, 2017
Committee Activity - Witnesses Who Testified
Regular Session 2019-2020
House Committee on Human Services
- Rebecca Bell, MD, FAAP, Pediatric Intensivist, University of Vermont Medical Center, On behalf of Vermont Medical Society
- Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
- Rep. Brian Cina, Sponsor
- Jennifer Costa, Government Relations Director, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
- Tiffany DeBona, Manager, Token Glass
- Patrick Delaney, Commissioner, Department of Liquor and Lottery
- Skyler Genest, Director of Compliance and Enforcement, Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery
- Prospero Gogo, Cardiologist and Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab at UVMMC, On Behalf of the Vermont Medical Society
- Rich Holschuh, Commissioner, Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs
- Sen. Debbie Ingram, Reporter
- Nolan Langweil, Senior Fiscal Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office
- Mark Levine, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health
- Shayla Livingston, Public Health Policy Advisor, Department of Health
- Andrew McLean, Lobbyist, Reynolds America International Services, Inc.
- Rebecca Ryan, Division Director, Health Promotion, American Lung Association of the Northeast
- Heather Shouldice, Lobbyist, Altria Client Services
- Jill Sudhoff-Guerin, Policy and Communications Manager, Vermont Medical Society
- Rep. Samuel Young, Sponsor
- Tina Zuk, Government Relations Director, American Heart Association
House Committee on Ways and Means
- Rep. Jessica Brumsted, Member, House Committee On Human Services
- Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
- John Hollar, Lobbyist, American Cancer Society
- Nolan Langweil, Senior Fiscal Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office
- Erin Sigrist, President, Vermont Retail & Grocers Association
- Jill Sudhoff-Guerin, Policy and Communications Manager, Vermont Medical Society
Senate Committee on Finance
- John Bloomer, Secretary, Vermont Senate
- Nolan Langweil, Senior Fiscal Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office
Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
- Jennifer Carbee, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
- Mark Levine, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health
- Andrew MacLean, Reynolds American
- Andrea Villanti, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont