Utah tobacco and nicotine laws
What Utah has enacted on tobacco and nicotine, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. Utah is one of 37 states that enacted a tobacco and nicotine law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.
10 new Utah laws take effect in 2027
- Bills in scope
- 10bills in scope
- Past committee
- 7past committee
- Most recent action
- 25 March 2026most recent action
Tobacco and nicotine laws enacted in Utah
4 tobacco and nicotine laws enacted in the Utah Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.
What it requires: Specialized product retailers must obtain a license from the Department of Agriculture and Food before selling specialized products. Licensees must provide a product list and notify the department at least seven days before selling products not on that list. Employees must not sell tobacco, electronic cigarette, or nicotine products to individuals under 21 years old with criminal negligence.
Licensing
What it requires: Manufacturers, jobbers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, consumers, and users must pay increased taxes on cigarettes at 11 cents per cigarette, on electronic cigarette substances and prefilled electronic cigarettes at 0.71 times manufacturer's sales price, on nicotine pouch products at $1 plus 5 cents per pouch over 20, and on other alternative nicotine products at 0.73 times manufacturer's sales price, effective July 1, 2026. Persons holding outdated tax stamps must not affix them to cigarettes.
Excise taxes and stamps
What it requires: Remote sellers of cigars and pipe tobacco must obtain a license, use an age verification system, comply with bonding requirements, collect and remit applicable taxes, file quarterly reports, provide itemized invoices, and comply with age and access requirements. Consumers purchasing untaxed cigars or pipe tobacco must file a statement and pay tax by the last day of the following month.
What it requires: Manufacturers of electronic cigarette products must certify products to the State Tax Commission and register them, providing FDA premarket authorization evidence and paying fees. Retailers, distributors, and wholesalers cannot sell electronic cigarette products not listed on the registry. Employees of tobacco retailers cannot sell tobacco, electronic cigarette, or nicotine products to individuals under 21 years old.
Tobacco and nicotine in Utah, by topic
Licensing
2 bills, 1 enacted. Enacted in 18 states.
Excise taxes and stamps
1 bill, 1 enacted. Enacted in 20 states.
Minimum age and youth access
1 bill. Enacted in 13 states.
Escrow, marketing and smoke-free rules
1 bill. Enacted in 11 states.
Tobacco and nicotine bills in Utah
The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.
4Enacted
3Past committee
3Introduced or inactive
10 bills in scope
Past committee
3
What it would do: Modifies permissible uses of funds in the Tobacco Settlement Restricted Account and Electronic Cigarette Substance and Nicotine Product Proceeds Restricted Account, and directs the Division of Finance to satisfy legislative appropriations sequentially when total appropriated amounts exceed actual revenue.
What it would do: Bans sale of non-nicotine inhalation products not approved by the FDA and not listed on the electronic cigarette product registry. Creates civil penalties of $1,000 to $5,000 and business license suspensions for violations, and criminal penalties up to class B misdemeanor.
What it would do: Amends tobacco and electronic cigarette regulations by raising permit fees for retailers, creating penalties for selling flavored electronic cigarette products, increasing criminal penalties for violations, and modifying enforcement and registry procedures for electronic cigarette products.
Introduced or inactive
3
What it would do: Prohibits displaying advertisements of electronic cigarette products and nicotine products on billboards, streetcar signs, buses, placards, and similar public displays, with exceptions for dealer storefront signs and newspaper or magazine advertisements. Violation is a class B misdemeanor.
What it would do: Authorizes remote sales of cigars and pipe tobacco by telephone, mail, and Internet. Requires remote sellers to obtain a license, post a bond, collect taxes at 0.86 times actual cost (maximum 50 cents per cigar), and use age verification systems. Establishes criminal penalties for unlicensed remote sales.
What it would do: Repeals the ban on flavored electronic cigarette products and creates a registry system for their sale; raises permit fees for tobacco retailers; requires retail tobacco specialty businesses to implement surveillance systems and employee tobacco handling permits; creates a tax on flavored electronic cigarette products effective January 1, 2026.
Bill titles link to the Utah Legislature's own page.
What counts as tobacco and nicotine legislation
In scope: Flavor bans and product standards; vapor product directories; licensing; excise taxes and stamps; minimum age and youth access; online and delivery sales; nicotine pouches and new products; and escrow, marketing and smoke-free rules.
Questions
Does Utah have a tobacco and nicotine law?
Yes. Utah enacted 4 tobacco and nicotine laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them HB 385, HB 337 and HB 447. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.
When do Utah's tobacco and nicotine laws take effect?
HB 385 on 6 May 2026, HB 337 on 1 July 2026, HB 447 on 1 January 2027 and SB 210 on 1 January 2027.
Which tobacco and nicotine bills are moving in Utah?
3 bills not yet law have passed a committee or a chamber, the furthest along HB 229 (passed chamber), HB 524 (passed chamber) and SB 186 (passed chamber).
What does Utah legislate on most in tobacco and nicotine?
Licensing (2 bills), Excise taxes and stamps (1 bill) and Minimum age and youth access (1 bill).
Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?
No. Which bills count as Tobacco and nicotine bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.
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Tobacco and nicotine legislation in other jurisdictions
51 more currently hold bills in this tracker
- New Jersey50
- New York49
- West Virginia31
- Mississippi22
- Hawaii21
- Montana20
- Texas20
- Iowa19
- Illinois19
- Indiana19
- Virginia18
- Connecticut16
- Massachusetts15
- Michigan15
- Missouri15
- Maryland14
- Tennessee13
- Washington13
- Kentucky12
- Oklahoma12
- Louisiana11
- Congress11
- Arizona10
- Nebraska10
- South Dakota10
- Florida9
- California8
- Georgia8
- New Hampshire8
- Oregon8
- Wisconsin8
- Maine7
- North Carolina7
- Pennsylvania7
- Rhode Island7
- Arkansas6
- Alabama5
- Idaho5
- Puerto Rico5
- South Carolina5
- New Mexico4
- Wyoming4
- Alaska3
- Colorado3
- Delaware3
- Kansas3
- Nevada3
- Ohio3
- Minnesota2
- North Dakota2
- Vermont2
Know when Utah's tobacco and nicotine law changes
An alert when a bill moves, and one report a month on what changed in every state and Congress.