Members of the Kansas Senate raised modest objection to legislation raising the minimum age for buying, possessing or consuming tobacco products in the state from 18 to 21 to comply with a three-year-old federal law. If approved on a final vote Tuesday by the Senate, the bill adopted by the Kansas House in early March would be sent to Gov. Laura Kelly. If signed into law, Kansas could gain $2.1 million in federal enforcement funding and lose $7.6 million in sales tax and cigarette stamp revenue. Sen. Mike Thompson, R-Shawnee, said previous attempts to achieve compliance in Kansas never survived the legislative process. He said House Bill 2269 could be different. “It was packaged in several bills over the last couple of years that had various regulations and it just never passed out,” Thompson said.
Source: Kansas Reflector
