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H.R. 2339: Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020

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H.R. 2339: Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020

116th Congress · introduced 2019-04-18 · Health · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-04-18 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 2 recorded votes in our records. Latest: House roll call 77 (2020): On Motion to Recommit with Instructions, HR2339 (2020-02-28), Failed. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020

Plain summary

Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020 This bill revises requirements related to the safety, sale, and advertisement of tobacco products, including electronic nicotine delivery systems (e.g., e-cigarettes, e-hookah, e-cigars, and vape pens). Among other requirements, the bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement regulations to require color graphics on the labeling of cigarette packages, depicting the negative health consequences of smoking; requires the FDA to apply regulations on tobacco products to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes; generally prohibits the retail online sale of tobacco products, including electronic nicotine delivery systems; prohibits flavors other than tobacco in a tobacco product; prohibits the use of flavored products in an electronic nicotine delivery system, except in specified circumstances; increases the user fees that the FDA collects from manufacturers and importers; directs the FDA to regulate products containing nicotine not made or derived from tobacco plants (including nicotine from chemical synthesis, recombinant genetic technology, or extraction from non-tobacco plants); imposes an excise tax on nicotine that has been extracted, concentrated, or synthesized; provides funding through FY2025 to support public education regarding tobacco regulation, public awareness regarding the harms associated with tobacco use, outreach to medically underserved communities regarding tobacco-use prevention and cessation, research grants related to tobacco-use prevention and cessation, and grants to health centers for tobacco-use cessation treatment; establishes and provides funding through FY2025 for a demonstration grant program to develop strategies for smoking cessation (including of the use of menthol-flavored tobacco products) in medically underserved communities; beginning in 2024, waives coinsurance under Medicare for colorectal-cancer screening tests; specifies that a health insurance plan may still be treated, for certain tax-deduction purposes, as a high-deductible plan even if it does not have a deductible for certain inhalers or nebulizers; exempts certain cigars from premarket review requirements; increases civil penalties for certain violations of restrictions on the sale of tobacco products; and requires the Government Accountability Office to study e-cigarettes.

Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6] · 126 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: Rules Committee Print 116-51, Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020 (2020-02-26)

Cosponsors on this site

Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Mike Levin (D-CA), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and 66 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6] reported raising $2.8 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

Recorded votes

Words on this page, explained (2)
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr2339 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116