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<item congress="116" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4742" measure-id="id116hr4742" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2019-10-18" update-date="2020-03-09">
<title>Protecting American Lungs Act of 2019</title>
<summary summary-id="id116hr4742v07" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2020-03-09">
<action-date>2020-02-21</action-date>
<action-desc>Reported to House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Protecting American Lungs Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill imposes an excise tax on &quot;taxable nicotine&quot; which is any nicotine that has been extracted, concentrated, or synthesized and is treated as a tobacco product. The tax does not apply to nicotine used in a product that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for sale as a nicotine replacement therapy. </p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id116hr4742v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2019-10-28">
<action-date>2019-10-18</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This bill imposes an excise tax on "taxable nicotine" which is any nicotine that has been extracted, concentrated, or synthesized&nbsp;and is treated as a tobacco product. The tax does not apply to nicotine used in a product that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for sale as a nicotine replacement therapy.</p>]]></summary-text>
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