H-1556.1
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1534
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By House Consumer Protection & Business (originally sponsored by Representatives Santos, Wylie, Parshley, Scott, Leavitt, Reeves, Doglio, Tharinger, Nance, Corry, Ybarra, Couture, McClintock, Hackney, Berry, Davis, Dufault, Ramel, Reed, Mendoza, Obras, Gregerson, Kloba, Callan, Shavers, Peterson, Zahn, Ormsby, Pollet, and Hill)
READ FIRST TIME 02/21/25.
AN ACT Relating to protecting public health and safety by enhancing the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products; amending RCW 26.28.080 , 70.155.010 , 70.155.090 , 70.155.100 , 70.345.010 , 70.345.030 , 82.25.030 , 82.25.095 , 82.26.010 , 82.26.020 , 82.26.060 , 82.26.190 , 82.26.200 , 82.26.240 , and 42.56.270 ; adding new sections to chapter 70.345 RCW; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 26.28.080 and 2019 c 15 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A person who sells or gives, or permits to be sold or given, to any person under the age of twenty-one years any cigar, cigarette, cigarette paper or wrapper, tobacco in any form, alternative nicotine product, or a vapor product is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and is additionally liable for a fine of up to $500 .