MN House votes to pass bill raising legal age to buy tobacco to 21 - KAAL

The bill was passed 89-41 later in the day and now goes to the Senate, where Sen. Carla Nelson (R-Rochester) is the sponsor.

In addition to changing the legal age for purchasing tobacco and tobacco products, the bill would:

• make people liable to administrative penalties for giving or otherwise furnishing tobacco products to underage people, in addition to selling them;
• include a wider range of tobacco and nicotine delivery products, including e-cigarettes;
• increase penalties for stores that sell to underage people and allow licenses to be revoked for a third or subsequent violation;
• eliminate the petty misdemeanor for underage people who possess tobacco or purchase it with a fake I.D.; and
• instead, require alternative civil penalties for underage people who purchase tobacco products, which can include tobacco-cessation programming and community service, but not fines or monetary penalties.

HF331 would make selling or giving tobacco to an underage person a petty misdemeanor for the first violation – a lower penalty than the misdemeanor in current law. Penalties for subsequent violations would be lowered from gross misdemeanors to misdemeanors.

Under the bill, a first violation would result in a $300 penalty, a second violation would cost $600, and later violations within 36 months of the initial violation would cost $1,000.

Currently, the penalties for retailers are, respectively $75, $200, and $250 for violations within 24 months of the initial violation.

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