HB 693 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
05/10
HOUSE BILL 693
AN ACT rescinding the prohibition on the possession and use of tobacco products by minors and making tobacco use prevention programs in secondary schools the priority of the tobacco use prevention fund.
This bill repeals the statute prohibiting the possession and use of tobacco products by minors.
The bill increases the amount of money from the tobacco settlement that is deposited in the tobacco use prevention fund. It also makes tobacco use prevention programs in secondary schools the fund's highest priority.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0587
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT rescinding the prohibition on the possession and use of tobacco products by minors and making tobacco use prevention programs in secondary schools the priority of the tobacco use prevention fund.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Repeal. RSA 126-K:6, relative to possession and use of tobacco products by minors, is repealed.
2 Youth Access to Tobacco Products; Tobacco Use Prevention Fund. Amend RSA 126-K:15 to read as follows:
126-K:15 Tobacco Use Prevention Fund. There is hereby established in the office of the state treasurer a fund to be known as the tobacco use prevention fund. Of tobacco settlement funds received by the state of New Hampshire, [$3,000,000] $6,000,000 annually, commencing with fiscal year 2001, shall be deposited in the tobacco use prevention fund. Moneys in this fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated, beginning with fiscal year 2001, for [tobacco use prevention and cessation programs, which shall include but not be limited to:] tobacco use prevention programs and enforcement of no smoking policies in all private and public secondary schools that request such funding. Funds shall be distributed equally among the requesting schools based on student enrollment. Any remaining moneys may be used for:
I. Tobacco use prevention community programs and grants.
II. [Tobacco use prevention school programs and grants.
III.] Tobacco use prevention state-wide programs and grants.
[IV.] III. Tobacco use cessation programs.
[V.] IV. Tobacco use prevention and cessation counter marketing.
[VI.] V. Evaluation of tobacco control initiatives.
[VII.] VI. Administration and enforcement.
3 Distribution of Tobacco Settlement Funds. Amend 2000, 212:1, II to read as follows:
II. Beginning in fiscal year 2001 and in each year thereafter:
(a) The first [$3,000,000] $6,000,000 to the tobacco use prevention fund, established in RSA 126-K:15.
(b) The next $40,000,000 to the education trust fund, established in RSA 198:39.
(c) Any additional annual amount [over $43,000,000] shall be deposited as unrestricted revenue to the general fund.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2002.