Second Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 16-0144.01 Jennifer Berman x3286HOUSE BILL 16-1137
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Klingenschmitt,  McCann, Windholz, Becker K., Landgraf
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Lundberg,  Newell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Health, Insurance, & Environment
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a requirement that certain packaged nicotine
            products offered for sale in this state have a
            conspicuously placed warning label on the package
            stating that the product contains nicotine.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill requires any packaged nicotine product that does not
       contain tobacco and is offered for sale in this state on or after January 1,
       2017, to have a conspicuously placed warning label on the package
       stating that the product contains addictive nicotine. The labeling
       requirement expressly applies to nicotine-containing dissolvables, lotions,
       gels, and drinks and to liquid nicotine and nicotine-containing e-liquids
       that are used with electronic nicotine delivery systems such as electronic
       cigarettes.
            The penalty scheme for violations of the warning label requirement
       is the same as for violations of the prohibition against selling nicotine
       products to a minor.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-35-503, add (6)
       as follows:
            24-35-503.  Sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine
       products to minors or in vending machines prohibited - warning sign
       - small quantity sales prohibited - label. (6) (a)  On or after January
       1, 2017, a person shall not sell or offer to sell in this state a
       packaged nicotine product that does not contain tobacco unless
       the following warning label is conspicuously placed on the
       package:
            WARNING: CONTAINS ADDICTIVE NICOTINE.
            (b)  The labeling requirement set forth in paragraph (a) of
       this subsection (6) applies to all types of nicotine products that
       do not contain tobacco, including nicotine-containing
       dissolvables, lotions, gels, and drinks and liquid nicotine and
       nicotine-containing e-liquids that are used with electronic
       nicotine delivery systems such as electronic cigarettes.
            SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-35-506, amend
       (1) introductory portion as follows:
            24-35-506.  Limitation on fines. (1)  For a violation of section
       24-35-503 (1), or (4), or (6), the penalty shall be is as follows:
            SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2016); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.