SB111,2250 20Section 2250 . 139.345 (3) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB111,1212,2321 139.345 (3) (b) 2. That the consumer understands that no person who is under
2218 21 years of age may purchase or possess cigarettes or falsely represent his or her
23age for the purpose of receiving cigarettes, as provided under s. 254.92.
SB111,2251 24Section 2251 . 139.345 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1139.345 (7) (a) No person may deliver a package of cigarettes sold by direct
2marketing to a consumer in this state unless the person making the delivery receives
3a government issued identification card from the person receiving the package and
4verifies that the person receiving the package is at least 18 21 years of age. If the
5person receiving the package is not the person to whom the package is addressed, the
6person delivering the package shall have the person receiving the package sign a
7statement that affirms that the person to whom the package is addressed is at least
818 21 years of age.
SB111,2252 9Section 2252 . 139.44 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB111,1213,1310 139.44 (4) Any person who refuses to permit the examination or inspection
11authorized in s. 139.39 (2) or 139.83 (1) may be fined not more than $500 or
12imprisoned not more than 90 days or both. Such refusal shall be cause for immediate
13suspension or revocation of permit by the secretary.
SB111,2253 14Section 2253 . Subchapter III (title) of chapter 139 [precedes 139.75] of the
15statutes is amended to read:
SB111,1213,1616 CHAPTER 139
SB111,1213,1917 SUBCHAPTER III
18 TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX and
19 vapor products taxes
SB111,2254 20Section 2254 . 139.75 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
SB111,1213,2421 139.75 (1m) “Cigar” means a roll, of any size or shape, of tobacco for smoking
22that is made wholly or in part of tobacco, regardless of whether the tobacco is pure,
23flavored, adulterated, or mixed with an ingredient if the roll has a wrapper made
24wholly or in part of tobacco.
SB111,2255 25Section 2255 . 139.75 (4t) of the statutes is created to read:
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1139.75 (4t) “Little cigar” means a cigar that has an integrated cellulose acetate
2filter and is wrapped in a substance containing tobacco.
SB111,2256 3Section 2256 . 139.75 (5b) of the statutes is created to read:
SB111,1214,154 139.75 (5b) “Manufacturer's list price" means the total price of tobacco
5products charged by the manufacturer or other seller to an unrelated distributor.
6The total price shall include all charges by the manufacturer or other seller that are
7necessary to complete the sale. The total price may not be reduced by any cost or
8expense, regardless of whether the cost or expense is separately stated on an invoice,
9that is incurred by the manufacturer or other seller, including fees, delivery, freight,
10transportation, packaging, handling, marketing, federal excise taxes, and import
11fees or duties. The total price may not be reduced by the value or cost of discounts
12or free promotional or sample products. For purposes of this subsection, a
13manufacturer or other seller is related to a distributor if the two parties have
14significant common purposes and either substantial common membership or,
15directly or indirectly, substantial common direction or control.
SB111,2257 16Section 2257 . 139.75 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB111,1214,2417 139.75 (12) “Tobacco products" means cigars; little cigars, cheroots; stogies;
18periques; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready-rubbed and other smoking tobacco;
19snuff, including moist snuff; snuff flour; cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine cut
20and other chewing tobaccos; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings
21of tobacco and other kinds and forms of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be
22suitable for chewing or smoking in a pipe or otherwise, or both for chewing and
23smoking; but “tobacco products" does not include cigarettes, as defined under s.
24139.30 (1m).
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1Section 2258. 139.75 (14) of the statutes is renumbered 139.75 (14) (a) and
2amended to read:
SB111,1215,93 139.75 (14) (a) “Vapor product” means a noncombustible product that produces
4vapor or aerosol for inhalation from the application of a heating element to a liquid
5or other substance that is depleted as the product is used, regardless of whether the
6liquid or other substance contains nicotine
, which may or may not contain nicotine,
7that employs a heating element, power source, electronic circuit, or other electronic,
8chemical, or mechanical means, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to
9produce vapor from a solution or other substance
.
SB111,2259 10Section 2259 . 139.75 (14) (b) and (c) of the statutes are created to read:
SB111,1215,1111 139.75 (14) (b) “Vapor product” includes all of the following:
SB111,1215,1312 1. An electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe,
13or similar product or device.
SB111,1215,1714 2. Any cartridge or other container of a solution or other substance, which may
15or may not contain nicotine, that is intended to be used with or in an electronic
16cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or
17device.
SB111,1215,2018 (c) “Vapor product” does not include a product regulated as a drug or device
19under sections 501 to 524A of the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act, 21 USC 351
20to 360n-1.
SB111,2260 21Section 2260 . 139.76 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB111,1216,1622 139.76 (1) An excise tax is imposed upon the sale, offering or exposing for sale,
23possession with intent to sell or removal for consumption or sale or other disposition
24for any purpose of tobacco products by any person engaged as a distributor of them
25at the rate, for tobacco products, not including moist snuff and vapor products little

1cigars
, of 71 percent of the manufacturer's established list price to distributors
2without diminution by volume or other discounts on domestic products
and, for moist
3snuff, at the rate of 100 percent of the manufacturer's established list price to
4distributors
without diminution by volume or other discounts on domestic products.
5The tax imposed under this subsection on cigars, except little cigars, shall not exceed
6an amount equal to 50 cents for each cigar. On products imported from another
7country, not including moist snuff and vapor products, the rate of tax is 71 percent
8of the amount obtained by adding the manufacturer's list price to the federal tax,
9duties and transportation costs to the United States. On moist snuff imported from
10another country, the rate of the tax is 100 percent of the amount obtained by adding
11the manufacturer's list price to the federal tax, duties, and transportation costs to
12the United States.
The tax attaches at the time the tobacco products are received by
13the distributor in this state. The tax shall be passed on to the ultimate consumer of
14the tobacco products. All tobacco products received in this state for sale or
15distribution within this state, except tobacco products actually sold as provided in
16sub. (2), shall be subject to such tax.
SB111,2261 17Section 2261 . 139.76 (1b) of the statutes is created to read:
SB111,1216,2418 139.76 (1b) The tax under sub. (1) is imposed on little cigars at the rate of 126
19mills on each little cigar, regardless of weight. To evidence payment of the tax
20imposed under this section on little cigars, the department shall provide stamps. A
21person who has paid the tax shall affix stamps of the proper denomination to each
22package in which little cigars are packed, prior to the first sale within this state.
23Section 139.32 as it applies to the tax under s. 139.31 applies to the tax imposed
24under this section on little cigars.
SB111,2262 25Section 2262 . 139.76 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read: