| Passed by the House March 5, 2013 Yeas 96 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 11, 2013 Yeas 46 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate | I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1937 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BARBARA BAKER ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved April 23, 2013, 4:02 p.m. JAY INSLEE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | April 24, 2013 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2013 Regular Session |
Read first time 02/19/13. Referred to Committee on Government Accountability & Oversight.
AN ACT Relating to prohibiting a person from selling or giving a vapor product designed solely for smoking or ingesting tobacco to a minor; and amending RCW 26.28.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 26.28.080 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 437 are each amended to
read as follows:
(1) Every person who sells or gives, or permits to be sold or
given, to any person under the age of eighteen years any cigar,
cigarette, cigarette paper or wrapper, ((or)) tobacco in any form, or
a vapor product is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
(2) It shall be no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this
section that the person acted, or was believed by the defendant to act,
as agent or representative of another.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "vapor product" means a
noncombustible tobacco-derived product containing nicotine that employs
a mechanical heating element, battery, or circuit, regardless of shape
or size, that can be used to heat a liquid nicotine solution contained
in cartridges. Vapor product does not include any product that is
regulated by the United States food and drug administration under
chapter V of the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act.