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30 and forty-eight per cent of public high school students had <br />31 tried electronic smoking devices. The 2019 Hawaii Youth Risk <br />32 Behavior Survey also indicates that eighteen per cent of middle <br />33 school students and thirty-one per cent of high school students <br />34 currently vape. <br />35 <br />36 The legislature further finds that in order to end this youth <br />37 vaping epidemic, the state must work- in concert with youth, <br />38 parents, and educational institutions, and laws must be changed <br />39 at all levels of government to establish reasonable restrictions <br />40 on the sale,of and access to these addictive products. <br />41 <br />42 Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to reauthorize the <br />43 counties to enact restrictions of the sales of tobacco products, <br />44 including electronic smoking devices, by inserting a sunset date <br />45 into Act 206, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 SECTION 2. Section §328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is <br />49 repealed. <br />50 <br />51 [Statewide (a) Sales ef elgaEettes, tebaeee j9Ee&*et-s_r <br />52 and eleetr-enle sfaeking deviees aiFe a statewide eeneevn. i t 4- a <br />53 �e intent ef the IeEffisl:atu�e to regulate the sale ef <br />54 eigarettes, tabaeee predueta, and eleetr-enie sifteking deviees <br />55 unifei-fft and eiEe3:'d5Jie <br />56 (b) All leeal ei_-dinaftees ef r-egalatlefts that regidlate <br />57 the sale ef elgarettes, tabaeee pEeduets, and eleetrenie sffieklng <br />58 devd:ees ai-e preeffipted, and existing leeal laws and r-egialat-letnis <br />59 eanflieting with this ehapter are null and veid. <br />60 (e) Nething in this ehapter shall be eeRstrued te <br />61 limit a eaianty5 a:athei4ty uncle,- seet-4:en 328J -15.1 <br />62 <br />63 SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and <br />64 stricken. <br />65 <br />66 SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon approval. <br />