No E-Liquid In Illinois Soon?

If enacted, HB 5689 would:

• Require all E-Liquids to be sold in “special packaging” and require the Illinois Department of Public Health to establish standards for such packaging
• BAN the seal of all E-Liquids in Illinois until these regulations are enacted.

Illinois vapers, your help is needed. This bill has could come up for a vote in the Illinois General Assembly at any time.

While HB 5689 is being promoted as a bill to sensibly require childproof caps on e-cigarette liquids, the truth is that this bill would BAN the sale of all e-cigarette liquid products until regulations are proposed and enacted by the Illinois Department of Public Health that describe the sort of packaging that is required. These regulations could take anywhere from six months to two years to actually become law. In that time, sales of e-cigarette liquid would be banned.

Additionally, even if HB 5689 is amended to allow for continued sales of e-liquid, this bill still abdicates rulemaking power to unelected bureaucrats of the Illinois Department of Public Health. Improper regulation, even on a subject as seemingly simple as childproof packaging, could have negative consequences for consumers by raising the cost of products or enacting barriers to adult access. As far as we can tell, no one at the Department of Public Health has any special knowledge of e-cigarettes or e-cigarette packaging. HB 5689 provides no funding for experts in the field of e-cigarettes or child-resistant packaging to be retained by the Department of Public Health.

Source: http://blog.casaa.org/2014/04/call-to-action-illinois-bill-would-ban.html