On April 19, 2016, the House Appropriations Committee voted to include a bipartisan amendment, sponsored by  Rep. Tom Cole (R – OK) and Rep. Sanford Bishop (D – GA), to the 2017 fiscal year Agricultural Appropriations bill that would amend the February 15, 2007 “grandfather date” for currently unregulated tobacco product categories, including nicotine-containing

With the passage of the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act (S. 142) by both houses of Congress, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will likely soon get new authority to require child-resistant (CR) packaging (“special packaging”) over certain packages of nicotine-containing “e-liquid.”  Assuming the President signs the bill, as expected, covered products