National Youth Smoking Reduction Act
Latest action · Mar 14, 2002 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E362)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 14, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act and the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act to revise tobacco and smokeless tobacco label and advertising warning requirements.
Prohibits a retailer selling a tobacco product to any person younger than 18 years of age. Restricts retail sales to face-to-face exchanges between retailers and consumers, except for certain mail order sales and sales from vending machine located in an adults-only facility.
Prohibits targeting youth in the advertising of tobacco products.
Requires ingredients disclosure to the public.
Makes any advertising that violates this Act an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 14, 2001 to Nov 28, 2001; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-VA | Edward L. Schrock | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-NY | Felix J. Grucci Jr. | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-NY | John E. Sweeney | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-GA | John Linder | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-TX | Kay Granger | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-NE | Lee Terry | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-GA | Mac Collins | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-WI | Mark Green | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-PA | Michael F. Doyle | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| R-OH | Paul E. Gillmor | Original | Jun 14, 2001 |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | Jun 25, 2001 | |
| R-MO | W. Todd Akin | Aug 1, 2001 | |
| D-CA | Gary A. Condit | Aug 2, 2001 | |
| D-WV | Alan B. Mollohan | Nov 28, 2001 |
Withdrew 3 Mary Bono R-CA Jun 27, 2001·Mike Ferguson R-NJ Jun 28, 2001·Earl F. Hilliard D-AL Nov 7, 2001
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jun 14, 2001 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 25, 2001 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 14, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E362)
- Jun 25, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 14, 2001Introduced in House
- Jun 14, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1117-1119)
- Jun 14, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to grant the Secretary of Health and Human Services the authority to regulate tobacco products, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- National Youth Smoking Reduction Act
- Popular Titles
- FDA Tobacco Products Regulation bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Advertising
- Agriculture and Food
- Airports
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Billboards
- Business records
- Cancer
- Carbon monoxide
- Celebrities
- Chemicals
- Child health
- Cigarettes
- Commerce
- Confidential communications
- Congress
- Congressional powers
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Deceptive advertising
- Defective products
- Dental care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Driver licenses
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse in pregnancy
- Drug addiction
- Drug adulteration
- Drug law and legislation
- Drugs
- Entertainers
- Environmental Protection
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal preemption
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Gifts
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health warnings
- Heart diseases
- Identification devices
- Import restrictions
- Imports
- Infrastructure
- Judicial review of administrative acts
- Labeling
- Law
- Legislation
- License agreements
- Local laws
- Lung cancer
- Lung diseases
- Mail-order business
- Marketing
- Marketing research
- Mass rapid transit
- Medical research
- Motion pictures
- Motor buses
- Music
- Newspapers
- Nicotine
- Outdoor advertising
- Packaging
- Passive smoking
- Periodicals
- Pregnant women
- Product development
- Product safety
- Railroad terminals
- Restrictive trade practices
- Retail trade
- Sales promotion
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Shopping malls
- Signs and signboards
- Smokeless tobacco
- Smoking
- Smoking and youth
- Sports and Recreation
- Sports facilities
- Standards
- State laws
- Stroke
- Taxicabs
- Television programs
- Terminals (Transportation)
- Theater
- Tobacco
- Tobacco industry
- Tobacco research
- Trade regulation
- Transportation and Public Works
- Vending machines
- Video games
- Warning labels
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 14, 2001Introduced in House
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