House Engrossed Senate Bill Arizona teachers academy; community colleges (now: tobacco use; sale; minimum age) State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 SENATE BILL 1247 AN ACT amending sections 13-3622, 36-798.01 and 36-798.02, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to tobacco. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
House Engrossed Senate Bill Arizona teachers academy; community colleges
(now: tobacco use; sale; minimum age) State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
SENATE BILL 1247
House Engrossed Senate Bill
Arizona teachers academy; community colleges
(now: tobacco use; sale; minimum age)
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
2025
SENATE BILL 1247
AN ACT
amending sections 13-3622, 36-798.01 and 36-798.02, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to tobacco.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 13-3622, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE13-3622. Furnishing of tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia to underage person; underage person accepting or receiving tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia; illegally obtaining tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia by underage person; classification; definitions A. A person who knowingly sells, gives or furnishes a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, to a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age is guilty of a petty offense. B. A minor person who is under twenty-one years of age and who buys, or has in his the person's possession or knowingly accepts or receives from any person, a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, is guilty of a petty offense, and if the offense involves any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars at least $100 or perform not less than at least thirty hours of community restitution. C. A minor person who is under twenty-one years of age who misrepresents the minor's person's age to any another person by means of a written instrument of identification with the intent to induce the other person to sell, give or furnish a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, in violation of subsection A or B of this section is guilty of a petty offense and, notwithstanding section 13-802, shall pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars $500. D. This section does not apply to any of the following: 1. Cigars, cigarettes or cigarette papers, smoking or chewing tobacco or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, if it is used or intended to be used in connection with a bona fide practice of a religious belief and as an integral part of a religious or ceremonial exercise. 2. Any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, that is given to or possessed by a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age if the instrument or paraphernalia was a gift or souvenir and is not used or intended to be used by the minor person who is under twenty-one years of age to smoke or ingest tobacco or shisha. E. For the purposes of this section: 1. "Shisha" includes any mixture of tobacco leaf and honey, molasses or dried fruit or any other sweetener. 2. "Tobacco product" means any of the following: (a) Cigars. (b) Cigarettes. (c) Cigarette papers of any kind. (d) Smoking tobacco of any kind. (e) Chewing tobacco of any kind. 3. "Vapor product": (a) Means a noncombustible tobacco-derived product containing nicotine that employs a mechanical heating element, battery or circuit, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to heat a liquid nicotine solution contained in cartridges. Vapor product (b) Does not include any product that is regulated by the United States food and drug administration under chapter V of the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act. END_STATUTE Sec. 2. Section 36-798.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE36-798.01. Selling or giving beedies or bidis; violation; classification A. It is unlawful for a retail tobacco vendor to sell, furnish, give or provide beedies or bidis to a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age in this state. B. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE Sec. 3. Section 36-798.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE36-798.02. Vending machine sales of tobacco and tobacco products; signage; violation; classification A. A person shall not sell tobacco products through a vending machine unless the vending machine is located in either: 1. A bar. 2. An employee lounge area that is not open to the public and the business in which the lounge area is located does not employ minors. B. A sign measuring at least eighty square inches shall be obviously affixed to the front of each vending machine. The sign shall state in block letters, that it is illegal for a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products and, upon on conviction, a fine of up to three hundred dollars $300 may be imposed. C. This article does not invalidate an ordinance of or prohibit the adoption of an ordinance by a county, city or town to further restrict the location of vending machines or specify different wording for the vending machines machine signs as required by subsection B of this section. D. A person who violates this section is guilty of a petty offense.END_STATUTE
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 13-3622, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE13-3622. Furnishing of tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia to underage person; underage person accepting or receiving tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia; illegally obtaining tobacco product, vapor product or tobacco or shisha instruments or paraphernalia by underage person; classification; definitions
A. A person who knowingly sells, gives or furnishes a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, to a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age is guilty of a petty offense.
B. A minor person who is under twenty-one years of age and who buys, or has in his the person's possession or knowingly accepts or receives from any person, a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, is guilty of a petty offense, and if the offense involves any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars at least $100 or perform not less than at least thirty hours of community restitution.
C. A minor person who is under twenty-one years of age who misrepresents the minor's person's age to any another person by means of a written instrument of identification with the intent to induce the other person to sell, give or furnish a tobacco product, a vapor product or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, in violation of subsection A or B of this section is guilty of a petty offense and, notwithstanding section 13-802, shall pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars $500.
D. This section does not apply to any of the following:
1. Cigars, cigarettes or cigarette papers, smoking or chewing tobacco or any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, if it is used or intended to be used in connection with a bona fide practice of a religious belief and as an integral part of a religious or ceremonial exercise.
2. Any instrument or paraphernalia that is solely designed for the smoking or ingestion of ingesting tobacco or shisha, including a hookah or waterpipe, that is given to or possessed by a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age if the instrument or paraphernalia was a gift or souvenir and is not used or intended to be used by the minor person who is under twenty-one years of age to smoke or ingest tobacco or shisha.
E. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Shisha" includes any mixture of tobacco leaf and honey, molasses or dried fruit or any other sweetener.
2. "Tobacco product" means any of the following:
(a) Cigars.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Cigarette papers of any kind.
(d) Smoking tobacco of any kind.
(e) Chewing tobacco of any kind.
3. "Vapor product":
(a) Means a noncombustible tobacco-derived product containing nicotine that employs a mechanical heating element, battery or circuit, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to heat a liquid nicotine solution contained in cartridges. Vapor product
(b) Does not include any product that is regulated by the United States food and drug administration under chapter V of the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act. END_STATUTE
Sec. 2. Section 36-798.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE36-798.01. Selling or giving beedies or bidis; violation; classification
A. It is unlawful for a retail tobacco vendor to sell, furnish, give or provide beedies or bidis to a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age in this state.
B. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE
Sec. 3. Section 36-798.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE36-798.02. Vending machine sales of tobacco and tobacco products; signage; violation; classification
A. A person shall not sell tobacco products through a vending machine unless the vending machine is located in either:
1. A bar.
2. An employee lounge area that is not open to the public and the business in which the lounge area is located does not employ minors.
B. A sign measuring at least eighty square inches shall be obviously affixed to the front of each vending machine. The sign shall state in block letters, that it is illegal for a minor person who is under twenty-one years of age to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products and, upon on conviction, a fine of up to three hundred dollars $300 may be imposed.
C. This article does not invalidate an ordinance of or prohibit the adoption of an ordinance by a county, city or town to further restrict the location of vending machines or specify different wording for the vending machines machine signs as required by subsection B of this section.
D. A person who violates this section is guilty of a petty offense.END_STATUTE