05/05/1997 01:32 PM House JUD

 SSHB 189 - RESTRICT TOBACCO SALES                                             
 SSHB 159 - TOBACCO PURCHASE, POSSESSION, SALE, ETC.                           
 HB 79 - MINOR IN POSSESSION OF TOBACCO                                        
                                                                               
 Number 2150                                                                   
                                                                               
 CHAIRMAN GREEN called on Representative James for a subcommittee              
 report on Sponsor Substitute for House Bill No. 189, "An Act                  
 relating to sale of tobacco and tobacco products; and providing for           
 an effective date"; Sponsor Substitute for House Bill No. 159, "An            
 Act relating to sale, gift, exchange, possession, and purchase of             
 tobacco and tobacco products; and providing for an effective date";           
 and House Bill No. 79, "An Act relating to the offense of                     
 possession of tobacco by a person under 19 years of age."  The                
 three bills had been assigned to the same subcommittee.                       
                                                                               
 REPRESENTATIVE JAMES, speaking as chair of that subcommittee,                 
 reported that they had met that morning and decided to let the                
 decisions be made by the committee as a whole.