File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental -
Health and Mental Hygiene) and Delegates Rosenberg, Frush, Morhaim,
Mandel, and Menes
- Entitled:
-
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Comprehensive Tobacco
Control Program - Sale of Tobacco Products to Minors
Creating a comprehensive tobacco control program that prohibits the
retail sale of tobacco to minors; requiring the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) or its designees to inspect retailers;
providing penalties for the sale or attempted sale of tobacco to
minors by retailers; providing due process rights for retailers;
providing for judicial review; requiring DHMH to develop an
educational program; providing that more stringent local laws may be
enforced; etc.
House Action
- 2/1
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/22
- Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Comm.
- Departmental
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS, OFFICE OF
- CIGARETTES -see also- SMOKING
- CITATIONS
- COMMERCE AND BUSINESS -see also- DEALERS; TRADERS; etc
- COMPTROLLER
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- EDUCATION -see also- DRIVER ED; HIGHER ED; SPECIAL ED; etc
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEARINGS
- INSPECTIONS -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION
- JUDICIAL REVIEW -see also- APPEALS
- LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; YOUTH
- NOTICES
- PENALTIES
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- TOBACCO
- VENDING MACHINES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Business Regulation
- (
16-210 ,
16-212
)
- Health - General
- (
8-901 ,
8-902 ,
8-903 ,
8-904 ,
8-905 ,
8-906 ,
8-907 ,
8-908 ,
8-909
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered