HR 2194 introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate e-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers, to reduce the morbidity and mortality resulting from cigarette smoking through the responsible regulation of e-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers as a tobacco harm reduction strategy, and for other purposes. Referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Text - H.R.2194 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Cigarette Smoking Reduction and Electronic Vapor Alternatives Act of 2017
The bill would amend the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to:
- Exclude vapor products from being defined or regulated by FDA as tobacco products
- Authorize and require FDA to reasonably and responsibly regulate e-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers
- Require e-liquids to comply with AEMSA standards
STANDARDS | AEMSA
- Require personal electronic vaporizers to comply with electronic and battery standards
- Require serial numbers on, and tracking of, all e-liquid and electronic vaporizers
- Require all e-liquid and electronic vapor product manufacturers to certify to FDA that their vapor products are in compliance with new FDA standards
- Authorize FDA to impose penalties and ban products not in compliance with standards
- Ban vaporizer and e-liquid sales to minors under 18
- Authorize FDA to ban the advertising and promotion of vapor products to minors
- Preempt states from enacting/enforcing laws with respect to the manufacture, warning requirements, marketing, distribution, or sale of vaporizers or e-liquid that is/are different from HR 2194
- Change name of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products to FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products and Tobacco Harm Reduction, and require FDA to support harm reduction
- Require FDA to comprehensively assess and rank different types of tobacco and nicotine products based upon their comparative disease risks, and to recommend harm reduction strategies to Congress.
Here are some articles.
Mike Siegel A major embarrassment for the FDA: Congressman to introduce e-cigarette regulatory bill tomorrow
The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary: A Major Embarrassment for the FDA: Congressman to Introduce E-Cigarette Regulatory Bill Tomorrow
Bradley Fikes: E-cigarette restrictions to be eased under bill by San Diego’s ‘Vaping Congressman’
E-cigarette restrictions to be eased under bill by San Diego's 'Vaping Congressman'
Mike Siegel: Don’t let alternative facts deter Congress from fixing e-cigarette regulations
Don't let alternative facts deter Congress from fixing e-cigarette regulations
