HB16

HB16 =**Sponsors: (J Glockner, LA, Moderate) (S Filkouski, AK, Republican) (M Sitko, MI, Moderate)**=

=**Bill Title:**= C.L.T.U.A = = =**Issue Category:** Civil Rights=

The purpose of our bill is to raise the legal age to use tobacco products from eighteen to twenty-one. One reason is to keep tobacco out of high schools. If eighteen and nineteen year old high schoolers can't buy tobacco products, it would be harder for younger high schoolers to get tobacco products. A second reason is to stop teenagers from developing bad habits. We, as Americans, do not our youth developing terrible habits that can cause diseases, cancers, and even death. Around 3.4 million high school students are current smokers. A third reason is that tobacco can damage the human brain while it is developing. The human brain is still developing until around the age of twenty-five and if we change the legal tobacco use age to twenty-one, it will give peoples' brains more time to develop before they begin to damage it with tobacco.
 * Purpose:**

Our bill affects places that sell tobacco products, and people who wanted to use tobacco products when they turn eighteen. Our bill affects places that sell tobacco products like gas stations because they will need to help enforce the new law by checking I.D.s of people who want to buy tobacco and our bill affects the people who wanted to use tobacco products when they turn eighteen because this bill would not let them.
 * Eligibility:**

The first step of our bill would be to hire advertiser to design and make the bill boards. The bill boards would be put up in every state and they would advertise the new bill. Next, we would have to hire people to put up the bill boards. The third step would be to enforce the new law. Law enforcers would ask for the identification of younger people using tobacco and if the person failed to show identification they would be detained until they could prove their innocents. If someone was born on or before May 27, 1991, they can still use tobacco, but if someone was born after that date, they would not be allowed to use tobacco until they turn twenty-one. The money to pay for this bill's costs would come from to places, tax payers and fundraisers. The main source of money would come from tax payers, and the rest would come from bake sales and other school fundraisers. Only a small portion of each tax payer's taxes will have to go towards this bill. This bill will not be a complicated bill, and it will not be hard to enforce, pay for, or to get going.
 * Terms and Benefits:**

The total cost for the bill is about 40 million dollars. This cost includes the price to make and put up 75 bill boards per state for six months and to rent spaces to put them.
 * Fiscal Impact:**