Vaping Calls to action:
Please support our Vaping Community and respond to these Vaping Calls to action as well as for your state. Links provided are posted from :
CASAA – The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association
casaa.org
Federal Posts:
Current Calls to action for Federal (all states) as follows:
Currently, there are 26 congressmen listed as co-sponsors on HR 2058. We need MORE! If you haven’t taken action — vital action that will help protect our access to vapor products — Please take a moment now to send a fully editable, pre-written email to your US Representative urging them to support and co-sponsor HR 2058.
The FDA Deeming Authority Clarification Act of 2015 (HR 2058), introduced by Representative Tom…
FDA Call to Action: Submit comments on FDA’s First Workshop Regarding E-Cigarettes. In December…
FDA Call to Action: Submit comments on FDA’s Second Workshop Regarding E-Cigarettes. The first…
Calls to action by State:
On Monday, July 13th, 2015, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced that the state legislature…
Update – 07.09.15 Although the PA State Assembly passed a budget bill in June that did not…
Several bills are scheduled to be heard in the Joint Committee on Public Health on Tuesday, July…
SB 140 will be heard in the Committee on Governmental Organization on Wednesday, July 8th at 1:30…
Vapor taxes in Connecticut may be back on the table as the legislature scrambles to finish the…
(URGENT) The New York Legislature has gone to extra innings and two bills that would severely limit…
The Utah Legislature will once again be entertaining the prospects of enacting taxes on vapor…
(Update 06.12.15) Final consideration of The District’s Budget is set for Tuesday, June 16th. The…
HB 682 would deceptively redefine “smoking” to include the use of e-cigarettes for the purpose of…
(Update – 06.10.15) URGENT! The Louisiana Legislature is about to take its final steps on, HB…
(Update – 06.09.15) HB 5 has been placed on the Senate Agenda for Thursday, June 11th,…
(Update – 06.08.15) Last night (Sunday, June 7th, 2015), the Kansas Senate approved a bill that…
(Update – 06.05.15) Oregon vapers! Your help is needed immediately to oppose new taxes on vapor…
(Reminder – 06.09.15) Here are a few things to keep in mind about the Louisiana E-cigarette Tax…
(Update – 06.04.15) It’s do or die time, Washington vapers! HB 2211 has been scheduled for a…
(Update – 06.03.15) Ohio vapers, your voices are needed once again! The Ohio Senate is now…
(Update – 05.31.15) On Thursday, May 28th, Governor Abbott signed SB 97 into law. Although CASAA…
It is likely that tax language regarding electronic cigarettes will be added to a revenue or…
(Update – 05.12.15) SB 139 has moved to conference committee and is on the agenda for tomorrow,…
HP 670 would deceptively redefine “cigarette” to include “e-cigarettes” for the purpose of taxing…
(Update – 05.09.15) HB 5 has been assigned to the Senate Health & Social Services Committee…
(Update – 05.08.15) HF 848 has moved to conference committee. The members of this committee were…
(Update – 05.04.15) Neither SB 97 nor HB 170 have been favorably amended to protect online sales…
SB 463 would deceptively redefine “Tobacco” to include “electronic nicotine delivery systems” (or…
(Update – 05.02.15) SB 139 has narrowly passed the house with the addition of Rep. Jewett’s…
(Update – 04.30.15) HB 5 (Indoor Vaping Ban) is on the House Agenda for today, Thursday, April…
Montgomery Co., MD Bill 15-15 would establish a 30% wholesale tax on electronic cigarettes sold…
(Updated 4-27-15) On April 23, 2015, CASAA’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Carl Phillips, testified…
The vapor tax* language from HF 2182 has been added to an amendment that will be offered in the…
FDA Call to Action: Submit comments on FDA’s Second Workshop Regarding E-Cigarettes. The first…
(Update 04.30.15) We have updated the instructions for testifying at the hearing on Friday, May…
Senate Bill 482 would require all e-cigarette retailers in Rhode Island to post false and…
(Update – 04.15.15) HF 2182 has been scheduled for an informal hearing on THURSDAY, April 16th at…
(Update – 04.14.15) Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 8:30 a.m., there will be a hearing…
House Bill 427 would enact a 5 cents per ml tax on e-liquid as well as double the wholesale tax on…
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has introduced the city’s budget for 2016. The proposal includes the “Vapor…
Senate Bill 482 would require all e-cigarette retailers in Rhode Island to post false and…
(Update – 04.15.15) HF 2182 has been scheduled for an informal hearing on THURSDAY, April 16th at…
(Update – 04.14.15) Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 8:30 a.m., there will be a hearing…
House Bill 427 would enact a 5 cents per ml tax on e-liquid as well as double the wholesale tax on…
(Update – 04.13.15) HB 5 has passed out of committee. It is important that vapers continue to act…
(Update – 04.12.15) Please see the latest update and opportunity to take action from Hawaii…
LD 1108 would deceptively redefine “smoking” to include “an electronic cigarette giving off vapor”…
(Update – 04.09.15) Governor Kasich’s budget is making its way through the Ohio budget process….
Activities for this Call to Action: Send an Email Call the Bill’s Sponsor, Sen. Sylvia Garcia…
HB 2074 and HB 2134 would expand Oregon’s definition of “tobacco products” to include “vapor…
HB 2211 would enact an unjustifiable extra tax of 60% of sales price on vapor products — liquids…
Like several states this year, North Dakota is considering bills to ban sales of e-cigarettes to…
AB 768 (the Tobacco Free Baseball Act), introduced by Assemblyman Tony Thurmond and co-sponsored by…
(Update – 03/30/15) Both bills that would include vaping in Alaska’s smoking law, SB 1 and HB 40,…
Nevada Senate Bill 201 would deceptively redefine “smoking” to include the use of “electronic smoking devices” for the purpose of including vaping in the state’s indoor clean air act.
Please take action now by sending a message to your state senator and members of the committee.
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(Update – 03/30/2015) The discussion about prohibiting sales of vapor products to minors in…
(Update – 03.28.15) SB 415 (ban on sales of flavored e-liquid) is scheduled for a work session…
(Update – 03.28.15) Two amendments have been offered to HB 5. HA 1 would carve out an exemption…
(Update – 03.27.15) Yesterday, SB 978 was “pulled back” in order to consider changes that would…
(Update – 03/19/15) HB 1432 (same as SB 539) is moving toward a vote on the floor next week and…
(UPDATE – 03/17/15) Vermont House Bill 233 would tax “tobacco substitutes” (vapor products…
Senate Bill 447 would alter the state’s definition of “smoking” to include the use of electronic…
Alabama Representative Steve McMillan has introduced a bill (HB 224) that would enact a $0.25/ml…
House Bill 5690 would ban the use of e-cigarettes in ANY indoor space in Rhode Island. As written,…
PA Governor Tom Wolf’s proposed budget for FY 2016 would enact a 40% wholesale tax on both vapor…
(Update – 03/12/15) House Bill 1645 is scheduled for a hearing in the House Committee on…
HB 415 (second substitute): Having successfully staved off a massive tax threat, Utah vapers are…
(Update – 03/06/15) Oregon Senate Bill 190 would enact an online sales ban for electronic…
(Update – 03/05/15) HB 5449, HB 6283, and HB 6290 are currently scheduled to be heard by the…
(Update – 03/09/15) We are receiving word that HB 2404 is being rescheduled for the committee…
(Update – 3/9/2015) Tomorrow (Tuesday, March 10) at 8 AM, the House Public Health Committee will…
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan has proposed a massive tax on vapor products and a hike in the…
(Update – 03/04/15) We have received word that the hearing for HB 579, scheduled for tomorrow…
Ohio Governor John Kasich has proposed a massive tax on vapor products and a hike in the tax on…
(Update – 02/23/15) Washington Vapers may be receiving emails from their state lawmakers…
New Hampshire SB 105, a bill that would include the use of e-cigarettes in the state’s indoor…
UPDATE 2/26/15: While a potential tax threat is never truly “dead,” we have been informed by…
A dangerously vague and ambiguous bill has been introduced in the Arizona State House of…
SB 65 would impose a massive tax on e-liquid and cartridges of 4 cents per mg of nicotine contained…
(Update – 3/3/15) HB 1432 (companion to SB 539) will be heard in the Senate Public Policy…
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