WA People
BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 2068: Tobacco & nicotine products

Regulating tobacco and nicotine products.

Summary

  • Prohibits the sale, display, marketing, or advertising of any flavored tobacco or nicotine product or entertainment vapor product.
  • Requires signage regarding the new prohibitions, a prevention and awareness campaign by the Department of Health, and provides for tribal consultation.
  • Increases license fees and administrative penalties for cigarette, tobacco product, and vapor product licensees.
  • Makes it a gross misdemeanor to sell or give an alternative nicotine product to a person under age 21, defines alternative nicotine products, and re-defines tobacco product.
  • Makes it unlawful to sell, give, deliver, or furnish to a person a product that contains a nicotine analogue, and defines nicotine analogue.
  • Adds an additional cigarette tax of $2 per pack of cigarettes, to be adjusted every three years for inflation.

From the House Bill Analysis 2025 (HB 2068), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedApr 1, 2025
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Kristine Reeves (D-30)
Introduced
April 1, 2025 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2026
Companion bill
SB 5803
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to enhancing public health and safety by ending the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products, regulating tobacco and vapor product retailers, and increasing taxation of cigarettes, tobacco products, and nicotine products;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Kristine Reeves (D-30)

5 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Lisa Parshley D-22Cindy Ryu D-32Gerry Pollet D-46Nicole Macri D-43Mia Gregerson D-33

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Finance.

HB 2068 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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