HB1047

SECTION 1. Section 245-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

1. By adding three new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""E-liquid" means any liquid or like substance, which may or may not contain nicotine, that is designed or intended to be used in an electronic smoking device, whether or not packaged in a cartridge or other container. The term "e-liquid" does not include prescription drugs; cannabis or manufactured cannabis products under chapter 329D; or medical devices used to aerosolize, inhale, or ingest prescription drugs, including manufactured cannabis products manufactured or distributed in accordance with section 329D-10(a).

"Electronic smoking device" means any electronic product, or part thereof, that can be used by a person to simulate smoking in the delivery of nicotine or any other substance, intended for human consumption through inhalation of vapor or aerosol from the product. The term "electronic smoking device" includes, but is not limited to, an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, electronic hookah, vape pen or related product, and any cartridge or other component part of the device or product.

"Smoke" or "smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying, or possessing any lighted or heated tobacco product, or similar substance intended for human consumption, including the use of an electronic smoking device that creates an aerosol or vapor, in any manner or in any form."

2. By amending the definition of "tobacco products" to read as follows:

""Tobacco products" means:

(1) Tobacco in any form, other than cigarettes or little cigars[, that is prepared or intended for consumption or for personal use by humans, including large cigars and any substitutes thereof other than cigarettes that bear the semblance thereof, snuff, chewing or smokeless tobacco, and smoking or pipe tobacco.]; or

(2) E-liquid;

that is intended for human consumption, or is likely to be consumed, whether smoked, heated, chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, or ingested by other means. The term "tobacco products" includes, but is not limited to, large cigars and any substitutes thereof other than cigarettes that bear the semblance thereof, pipe tobacco, chewing or smokeless tobacco, snuff, snus, e-liquid, electronic smoking devices containing e-liquid, component parts containing e-liquid, and related products."

SECTION 2. Chapter 28, part XII, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

SECTION 3. Section 245-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

[~~[§245-17]~~ Delivery sales. (a) No person shall conduct a delivery sale or otherwise ship or transport, or cause to be shipped or transported, any electronic smoking device in connection with a delivery sale to any person under the age of twenty-one.

(b) A person who makes delivery sales shall not accept a purchase or order from any person without first obtaining the full name, birth date, and address of that person and verifying the purchaser's age by:

~~(1)~~ ~~An independently operated third-party database or aggregate of databases that are regularly used by government and businesses for the purpose of age and identity verification and authentication;~~

~~(2)~~ ~~Receiving a copy of a government issued identification card from the purchaser; or~~

~~(3)~~ ~~Requiring age and signature verification in the shipment process and upon and before actual delivery.~~

~~(c) The purchaser shall certify their age before completing the purchaser's order.~~

(d) Any person who violates this section shall be fined $500 for the first offense. Any subsequent offenses shall subject the person to a fine of no less than $500 but no more than $2,000. Any person under twenty-one years of age who violates this section shall be fined $10 for the first offense; provided that any subsequent offense shall subject the person to a fine of $50, no part of which shall be suspended, or the person shall be required to perform no less than forty-eight hours but no more than seventy-two hours of community service during hours when the person is not employed or attending school.

~~(e) The department shall not adopt rules prohibiting delivery sales.~~

~~(f) For the purposes of this section:~~

~~"Delivery sale" means any sale of an electronic smoking device to a purchaser in the State where either:~~

~~(1)~~ ~~The purchaser submits the order for sale by means of a telephonic or other method of voice transmission, the mail or any other delivery service, or the internet or other online service; or~~

~~(2)~~ ~~The electronic smoking device is delivered by use of the mail or any other delivery service.~~

~~The foregoing sales of electronic smoking devices shall constitute a delivery sale regardless of whether the seller is located within or without the State.~~

"Electronic smoking device" means any electronic product that can be used to aerosolize and deliver nicotine or other substances to the person inhaling from the device, including but not limited to an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, or electronic pipe, and any cartridge or other component of the device or related product.]

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect January 1, 2019, provided that section 1 shall take effect January 1, 2020.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1047
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019
STATE OF HAWAII