10 Year Analysis Complete for Senate Bill 5526

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UPDATE: The 10 year analysis for SB 5526, titled AN ACT Relating to protecting public health and safety by enhancing the regulation of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products, has been completed. The Office of Financial Management has identified this bill as requiring a ten-year projection of increased cost to the taxpayers or affected fee payers.

Ten-year projection:

Liquor and Cannabis Board:

Section 7(3): requires each manufacturer whose vapor products are sold in Washington state, to pay $1,000 for each vapor product containing nicotine, the first time they submit a certification form for that product and a payment of $500 annually thereafter for each product.

The agency does not know how many manufacturers of vapor products containing nicotine have their products sold in Washington state or how many might comply with this requirement. A large number of vapor manufacturers are either out-of-state or out-of-country (many in China) and so enforcing this requirement would be very difficult.

In addition, the agency does not currently track the number of vapor products containing nicotine sold within Washington state.

Therefore, for those reasons, the cash receipt impact is INDETERMINATE.

Admin Office of the Courts:

The new charges could potentially result in some amount of fee revenue.  However, there is no judicial data available to estimate the total amount of fees that would be collected.

Ten-year projection prepared in consultation with the following agencies:

Admin Office of the Courts
Liquor and Cannabis Board


Bill sponsors and contact information:

Senator Marko Liias, Prime Sponsor
Democrat
(360) 786-7640
marko.liias@leg.wa.gov

Senator John Braun
Republican
(360) 786-7638
john.braun@leg.wa.gov

Senator Rebecca Saldaña
Democrat
(360) 786-7688
rebecca.saldana@leg.wa.gov

Senator Mike Chapman
Democrat
(360) 786-7646
mike.chapman@leg.wa.gov

Senator Curtis King
Republican
(360) 786-7626
curtis.king@leg.wa.gov

Senator Claire Wilson
Democrat
(360) 786-7658
claire.wilson@leg.wa.gov

Senator Chris Gildon
Republican
(360) 786-7648
chris.gildon@leg.wa.gov

Senator Derek Stanford
Democrat
(360) 786-7600
derek.stanford@leg.wa.gov

Senator Mark Schoesler
Republican
(360) 786-7620
mark.schoesler@leg.wa.gov

Senator Matt Boehnke
Republican
(360) 786-7614
matt.boehnke@leg.wa.gov

Senator Steve Conway
Democrat
(360) 786-7656
steve.conway@leg.wa.gov

Senator Adrian Cortes
Democrat
(360) 786-7634
Adrian.Cortes@leg.wa.gov

Senator Paul Harris
Republican
(360) 786-7632
paul.harris@leg.wa.gov

Senator Deborah Krishnadasan
Democrat
(360) 786-7650
Deborah.Krishnadasan@leg.wa.gov

Senator T'wina Nobles
Democrat
(360) 786-7654
T'wina.Nobles@leg.wa.gov

Senator Jamie Pedersen
Democrat
(360) 786-7628
jamie.pedersen@leg.wa.gov

Senator Javier Valdez
Democrat
(360) 786-7690
javier.valdez@leg.wa.gov




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