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f S f 1 i t t g ) 30 and forty-eight per cent of public high school students had z 5 31 tried electronic smoking devices. The 2019 Hawaii Youth RiskI ! 32 Behavior Survey also indicates that eighteen per cent of middle I t 33 school students and thirty-one per cent of high school students : ] 34 currently vape. i J 35 r u 36 The legislature further finds that in order to end this youth i 1 37 vaping epidemic, the state must work in concert with youth, ' 1 38 parents, and. educational institutions, and laws must be changed 39 at all levels of government to establish reasonable restrictions y 40 , on the sale ,of and access to these addictive products. i x 41 I 42 Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to reauthorize the { 43 counties to enact restrictions of the sales of tobacco products, . 44 including electronic smoking devices, by inserting a sunset date 45 into Act 206, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. ( 46 47 • z 48 SECTION 2. Section §328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is 1 49 repealed. t 4 50 1 51 (Statcw-idc concorn. (a) Sales of cigarcttcc, tobacco products, g 52 end electronic smoking devices arc a statewide concern. It is 1 i 53 the intent of the legislature to regulate the sale of a 54 cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices in 1 2 55 a uniform and exclusivef 56 (b) All local ordinances or regulations that regulate 57 the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking 58 devices arc preempted, and existing local lawn and regulations I a . 59 conflicting with this chapter arc null and void. 60 (c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to 61 limit a county's authority under section 328J 15. ] 62 1 63 SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and i x 64 stricken. i 65 66 SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon approval. ] 1 £ i . ? I 1 t t 5