SB0330 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 05859 RLC 35913 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB0330

Introduced 2/15/2005, by Sen. Larry K. Bomke

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

720 ILCS 685/3	from Ch. 23, par. 2358-3
720 ILCS 685/4	from Ch. 23, par. 2358-4

Amends the Tobacco Accessories and Smoking Herbs Control Act. Prohibits the sale, barter, exchange, delivery, and giving away of flavored cigarettes (in addition to bidi cigarettes). Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning criminal law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Tobacco Accessories and Smoking Herbs Control Act is amended by changing Sections 3 and 4 as follows:

(720 ILCS 685/3) (from Ch. 23, par. 2358-3)

Sec. 3. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this Act:

(a) "Tobacco accessories" shall mean cigarette papers, pipes, holders of smoking materials of all types, cigarette rolling machines, and other items, designed primarily for the smoking or ingestion of tobacco products or of substances made illegal under any statute or of substances whose sale, gift, barter, or exchange is made unlawful under this Act.

(b) "Smoking herbs" shall mean all substances of plant origin and their derivatives, including but not limited to broom, calea, California poppy, damiana, hops, ginseng, lobelia, jimson weed and other members of the Datura genus, passion flower and wild lettuce, which are processed or sold primarily for use as smoking materials.

(c) "Bidi cigarette" means a product that contains tobacco that is wrapped in temburni or tendu leaf or that is wrapped in any other material identified by rules of the Department of Public Health that is similar in appearance or characteristics to the temburni or tendu leaf.

(d) "Flavored cigarette" means a cigarette or any of its component parts (including the tobacco, filter, or paper) that contains, as a constituent (including a smoke constituent) or additive, an artificial or natural flavor (other than tobacco or menthol) or an herb or spice, including strawberry, grape, orange, clove, cinnamon, pineapple, vanilla, coconut, licorice, cocoa, chocolate, cherry, or coffee, that is a characterizing flavor of the tobacco product or tobacco smoke.

(Source: P.A. 91-734, eff. 1-1-01.)

(720 ILCS 685/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 2358-4)

Sec. 4. Offenses.

(a) Sale to minors. No person shall knowingly sell, barter, exchange, deliver or give away or cause or permit or procure to be sold, bartered, exchanged, delivered, or given away tobacco accessories or smoking herbs to any person under 18 years of age.

(a-5) Sale of bidi and flavored cigarettes. No person shall knowingly sell, barter, exchange, deliver, or give away a bidi or flavored cigarette to another person, nor shall a person cause or permit or procure a bidi or flavored cigarette to be sold, bartered, exchanged, delivered, or given away to another person.

(b) Sale of cigarette paper. No person shall knowingly offer, sell, barter, exchange, deliver or give away cigarette paper or cause, permit, or procure cigarette paper to be sold, offered, bartered, exchanged, delivered, or given away except from premises or an establishment where other tobacco products are sold. For purposes of this Section, "tobacco products" means cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, or tobacco in any of its forms.

(c) Sale of cigarette paper from vending machines. No person shall knowingly offer, sell, barter, exchange, deliver or give away cigarette paper or cause, permit, or procure cigarette paper to be sold, offered, bartered, exchanged, delivered, or given away by use of a vending or coin-operated machine or device. For purposes of this Section, "cigarette paper" shall not include any paper that is incorporated into a product to which a tax stamp must be affixed under the Cigarette Tax Act or the Cigarette Use Tax Act.

(d) Use of identification cards. No person in the furtherance or facilitation of obtaining smoking accessories and smoking herbs shall display or use a false or forged identification card or transfer, alter, or deface an identification card.

(e) Warning to minors. Any person, firm, partnership, company or corporation operating a place of business where tobacco accessories and smoking herbs are sold or offered for sale shall post in a conspicuous place upon the premises a sign upon which there shall be imprinted the following statement, "SALE OF TOBACCO ACCESSORIES AND SMOKING HERBS TO PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR THE MISREPRESENTATION OF AGE TO PROCURE SUCH A SALE IS PROHIBITED BY LAW". The sign shall be printed on a white card in red letters at least one-half inch in height.

(Source: P.A. 91-734, eff. 1-1-01.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.