[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2519 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2519

          To increase the legal age of smoking from 18 to 21.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 1997

 Ms. DeGette introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
          To increase the legal age of smoking from 18 to 21.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tobacco-Free Youth Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN LEGAL AGE OF SMOKING.

    Section 1926 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-26) 
is amended by striking ``under the age of 18'' each place it occurs and 
inserting ``under the age of 21''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect with respect to 
the first fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, except that in the case of a State the legislature of which does 
not convene a regular session in such fiscal year or the next fiscal 
year, such amendments shall take effect with respect to the third 
fiscal year beginning after such date.
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