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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 641 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 344 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 641 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING THE REQUEST FOR PROOF OF AGE TO | |
| 19 | 19 | PURCHASE TOBACCO. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That section 53-344 of the general statutes be amended to provide an 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | exemption to the requirement that a seller's agent or employee request 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | that each person intending to purchase cigarettes or a tobacco product 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | present a driver's license or identity card to establish that such person is 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | twenty-one years of age or older if such person has previously presented 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | to the agent or employee a driver's license or identity card to establish 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | that such person is twenty-one years of age or older. 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 31 | 31 | To reduce the burden on retailers by removing the requirement that an | |
| 32 | 32 | individual be required to produce proof of age each time the individual | |
| 33 | 33 | purchases tobacco if the retailer has previously reviewed such | |
| 34 | 34 | individual's identification and knows that the individual is twenty-one | |
| 35 | 35 | years of age or older. |