2025 bills / H.B. 245
H.B. 245 Tobacco Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee (stopped here)
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- Senate committee
- Senate vote
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What this bill does
The bill would allow cigar and pipe tobacco to be sold remotely by phone, mail, internet, or similar means to buyers in Utah. Remote sellers would need a license and a bond, cigar and pipe tobacco sales of this kind would be taxed, failing to meet the licensing and bonding rules would be a crime, and the tax rate on cigars would change.
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Official description
- authorizes telephone, mail, Internet, and other remote sales of a cigar or pipe tobacco
- provides for the licensing, bonding, and taxation of cigar and pipe tobacco transactions between a remote seller and a consumer in the state
- establishes a criminal penalty for failing to comply with the licensing and bonding requirements
- modifies the tax rate on a cigar
- makes technical and conforming changes
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