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HB 49                                                                                                                         
The Labor & Commerce Committee considered:                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
    HOUSE BILL NO. 49                                                                                                           
    "An Act relating to tobacco, tobacco products, electronic smoking                                                           
    products, nicotine, and products containing nicotine; raising the                                                           
    minimum age to purchase, exchange, or possess tobacco, a                                                                    

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    product containing nicotine, or an electronic smoking product;                                                              
    relating to the tobacco use education and cessation fund; relating                                                          
    to the taxation of electronic smoking products and vapor products;                                                          
    and providing for an effective date."                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
and recommends it be replaced with:                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
    CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 49(L&C)                                                                                               
    (same title)                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
The report was signed by Representatives Fields and Hall, Co-chairs,                                                            
with the following individual recommendations:                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Do pass (4):  Carrick, Burke, Fields, Hall                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
Do not pass (1):  Coulombe                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
No recommendation (1):  Nelson                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
The following fiscal note(s) apply to CSHB 49(L&C):                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
1. Zero, Dept. of Administration                                                                                                
2. Zero, Dept. of Administration                                                                                                
3. Zero, Dept. of Commerce, Community, & Economic                                                                               
 Development                                                                                                                    
4. Zero, Dept. of Health                                                                                                        
5. Zero, Dept. of Law                                                                                                           
6. Zero, Dept. of Public Safety                                                                                                 
7. Fiscal, Dept. of Revenue                                                                                                     
8. Zero, Alaska Judiciary System                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
HB 49 was referred to the Finance Committee.