| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to taxation; tobacco; modifying the definitions of moist snuff and tobacco |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 products; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 297F.01, subdivisions 10b, |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4 19. |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 297F.01, subdivision 10b, is amended to read: |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 Subd. 10b.Moist snuff."Moist snuff" means any finely cut, ground, or powdered |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8smokeless tobacco, or similar product containing nicotine, that is intended to be placed or |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9dipped in the mouth. |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2025. |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 297F.01, subdivision 19, is amended to read: |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12 Subd. 19.Tobacco products.(a) "Tobacco products" means any product containing, |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13made, or derived from tobacco that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any other means, or |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product, including, but not limited to, cigars; |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16cheroots; stogies; periques; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and other smoking |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17tobacco; snuff; snuff flour; cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine-cut and other chewing |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18tobacco; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco, and other kinds |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19and forms of tobacco; but does not include cigarettes as defined in this section. Tobacco |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20products includes nicotine solution products and moist snuff. Tobacco products excludes |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21any tobacco product that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1.22Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product, as a tobacco dependence product, |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1Sec. 2. |
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| 24 | 24 | | 25-02644 as introduced02/10/25 REVISOR EAP/AC |
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| 25 | 25 | | SENATE |
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| 26 | 26 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 27 | 27 | | S.F. No. 1716NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 28 | 28 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: LANG) |
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| 29 | 29 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 30 | 30 | | Introduction and first reading02/20/2025 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Referred to Taxes 2.1or for other medical purposes, and is being marketed and sold solely for such an approved |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2.2purpose. |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2.3 (b) Except for the imposition of tax under section 297F.05, subdivisions 3 and 4, tobacco |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2.4products includes a premium cigar, as defined in subdivision 13a. |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2.5 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective July 1, 2025. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2Sec. 2. |
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| 37 | 37 | | 25-02644 as introduced02/10/25 REVISOR EAP/AC |
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