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Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on behalf of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids regarding HB 685 by Delegate Hope. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids strongly supports HB 685, which would create a licensing program for tobacco retailers in Virginia. Requiring a local tobacco retailer license will provide the Commonwealth with a powerful tool for protecting children from the risks of tobacco use by preventing the sale of tobacco products to minors. Virginia is one of only nine states that do not have a Tobacco Retail License. Without this, it is not possible to monitor illegal sales of tobacco products. HB 685 would require all retailers of tobacco and nicotine products to obtain a Tobacco Retail License on an annual basis through the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Authority (ABC). This would a comprehensive list of all tobacco and nicotine retailers within the Commonwealth. It would be similar to an ABC alcohol license and the licenses being considered for retail sales of marijuana in Virginia. This would allow for a systematic enforcement program that would level the playing field for small businesses who follow the rules. Rogue retailers who illegally sell tobacco products to minors would risk monetary penalties and the potential for license suspension. HB 685 would also remove penalties for youth who purchase, use and possession tobacco products. These punitive measures have not been shown effective in reducing youth use of tobacco. HB 685 is a common sense piece of legislation that will help prevent tobacco use among youth. For that reason, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids encourages you to support a strong Tobacco Retail License in Virginia, by voting yes on HB 685.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on behalf of the American Lung Association in Virginia regarding HB 685 by Delegate Hope. The American Lung Association strongly supports HB 685, which would create a licensing program for tobacco retailers in Virginia. We are asking that you vote yes in support of this bill. Currently, Virginia does not require tobacco and e-cigarette retailers to obtain a tobacco retail license. Virginia is one of 9 states that do not have a Tobacco Retail License. Without a comprehensive tobacco retail license program, Virginia cannot effectively enforce, educate, monitor, or penalize illegal sales of tobacco products. According to data strong retail licensing requirements have been found to reduce youth e-cigarette and tobacco use. HB 685 would be a good step in implementing a tobacco retail license infrastructure in Virginia. HB 685 would: • Require all retailers of tobacco and nicotine products to obtain a Tobacco Retail License through the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Authority (ABC) and renew it annually • Establish a comprehensive list of all tobacco and nicotine retailers within the Commonwealth which we currently do not have. This will streamline enforcement efforts and provide needed data on who is setting tobacco and nicotine products at retail • Aligns state definitions of tobacco product and electronic smoking devices with federal definitions • Establish enhanced civil monetary penalties and outline license suspension and revocation provisions • Removes youth purchase, use and possession penalties, which target kids and have not been shown effective in reducing youth use of tobacco The American Lung Association thanks you for the opportunity to share our comments on this proposed piece of legislation and encourages you to support a strong Tobacco Retail License in Virginia, by voting yes on HB 685. If we can answer any additional questions or provide more information, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on behalf of the American Lung Association in Virginia regarding HB 685 by Delegate Hope. The American Lung Association strongly supports HB 685, which would create a licensing program for tobacco retailers in Virginia. We are asking that you vote yes, at the upcoming Subcommittee #3 meeting. Currently, Virginia does not require tobacco and e-cigarette retailers to obtain a tobacco retail license. Virginia is one of 9 states that do not have a Tobacco Retail License. Without a comprehensive tobacco retail license program, Virginia cannot effectively enforce, educate, monitor, or penalize illegal sales of tobacco products. According to data strong retail licensing requirements have been found to reduce youth e-cigarette and tobacco use. HB 685 would be a good step in implementing a tobacco retail license infrastructure in Virginia. HB 685 would: • Require all retailers of tobacco and nicotine products to obtain a Tobacco Retail License through the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Authority (ABC) and renew it annually • Establish a comprehensive list of all tobacco and nicotine retailers within the Commonwealth which we currently do not have. This will streamline enforcement efforts and provide needed data on who is setting tobacco and nicotine products at retail • Aligns state definitions of tobacco product and electronic smoking devices with federal definitions • Establish enhanced civil monetary penalties and outline license suspension and revocation provisions • Removes youth purchase, use and possession penalties, which target kids and have not been shown effective in reducing youth use of tobacco The American Lung Association thanks you for the opportunity to share our comments on this proposed piece of legislation and encourages you to support a strong Tobacco Retail License in Virginia, by voting yes on HB 685

January 24, 2022 - Presented with strong evidence that raising the tobacco sales age from 18 to 21 could prevent millions of kids from starting down a path of smoking and nicotine addiction, the Virginia General Assembly passed a “Tobacco 21” law in January of 2019. Later that year, Congress also raised the federal tobacco sales age to 21, and President Trump immediately signed it into law. But Virginia is not enforcing Tobacco 21, and retailer violation numbers are climbing, meaning kids are being sold tobacco and nicotine products at unacceptably high rates throughout the Commonwealth, purchasing them, using them and bringing them to school to share with their peers. Right now, one in five Virginia high schoolers – 20 percent - are currently using highly-addictive e-cigarettes (“Vaping”) and doing so at almost double the national youth vaping rate of 11 percent. Ask any high school principal: vaping in school is the number one infraction reported by school administrators throughout Virginia. Nicotine is highly-addictive; it harms the developing adoloescent brain and is a gateway to other drug use. Nicotine has been linked to scholastic under-achievement, depression and other mental health disorders. Research tells us (and the tobacco industry knows this too) that if a person has not started smoking or vaping by age 21, there is a very good chance they never will. Properly enforced, “Tobacco 21” laws will reduce youth initiation and use of tobacco and nicotine and help prevent a lifetime of addiction, illness and early death. Tobacco Retail Licensing (“TRL) is an essential tool for enforcing the state and federal sales age of 21, yet Virginia remains one of only nine states in the U.S. without a TRL law. Without a TRL, there is no comprehensive list of the estimated 7,800 tobacco and nicotine retailers in the state and no systematic enforcement program. Virginia must enforce the federal age of 21 by demonstrating it has achieved a retailer violation rate (“RVR”) of no higher than 20 percent or the state risks losing 10% (more than $4M) in annual Substance Abuse Block Grants (SABG) through SAMHSA. Establishing a Tobacco Retail Licensing law through H. 685 will create a reasonable, systematic program of enforcement and establish a penalty and suspension structure for those who sell unlawfully. H. 685 will level the playing field for all tobacco retailers, eliminating the unfair advantage now held by rogue retailers who sell to kids. H. 685 does not place burdensome regulations on tobacco retailers; it is a privilege license to sell an addictive and harmful product, the same as an ABC alcohol license and the licenses being considered for retail sales of marijuana in Virginia. Please vote to pass H. 685 to protect Virginia kids from a lifetime of tobacco and nicotine use and addiction. Respectfully submitted, Shannon Quinby Eastern Regional Director Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation/Tobacco 21 McLean, VA 22101

Comments Document

Please accept the attached document as testimony in favor of H. 685. Thank you

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I am a resident of Chesterfield County and member of Manchester Richmond Moose Family Center 699 located in North Chesterfield. As you study and deliberate on charitable gaming as a result of SB 403 and HB 763, I urge you to consider all of the activities in our Lodge and community that proceeds from charitable gaming allows us to support. Our organization, established over 100 years ago, primarily provides for the health, welfare, and education of over 200 children at our child city of Mooseheart. Additionally, we provide shelter, healthcare, and active living for our senior members at Moosehaven. Support of our twin cities is the cornerstone of our organization, but we also support many other at large charities that benefit our community. As a member of the Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce, we support the following charities: Mooseheart/Moosehaven Fisher House @ McGuire Hospital Chesterfield Fire Station #4 MAC Program Sitter/Barfoot Rehab Center Manchester HS Choral Boosters Camp Baker Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center Chesterfield Fire Station #20 Special Olympics Area 6 Disabled American Veterans Richmond Animal League American Heart Association Chesterfield Food Bank Moosehaven VCU Children’s Hospital Youth Awareness Program Vetshouse Inc. Alzheimer’s Association of GR Forest View Rescue Squad Salvation Army VCU Massey Cancer Center Homeless Vets @McGuire Hosp. Susan G. Komen Research Richmond Hornets 11u Team RVA Humble Beginnings Senior Games DSAGR Chesterfield Christmas Mother Manchester Rescue Squad Cub Scout Pack #1892 Boys & Girls Club Virginia House at Mooseheart NWTF Safe Surfin’ Foundation Chesterfield County Police Fdn. Old Dominion Cott. Chesterfield Professional Firefighters Charitable Foundation Service Dogs of Virginia and several other state and national charities benefit from the charitable gaming our lodge operates. I urge you and all parties involved to oppose any further regulation of taxing gaming in the private social quarters of our lodges Most of the proceeds from this gaming benefits our communities at large as outlined above as well as our fraternal foundation of Mooseheart and Moosehaven. Mandating taxing the proceeds from private social quarters gaming would significantly diminish our ability to continue supporting these worthwhile endeavors. Our money goes directly and immediately to these charities unlike public funding that takes forever to distribute after everyone has gotten their cut. These bills do nothing to stop illegal gambling. They do NOT eliminate illegal gaming machines that have proliferated in convenience stores and restaurants. There are 83 Moose Lodges in our state currently that donate to our communities through gaming and by taxing them, you are hurting those we support.

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I would like to thank Delegates Wilt and Runion for their efforts on this and their willingness to listen . My name is Rick Dove . I am president of a small community service organization in the Broadway area . As many of you know service organizations such as ours are dwindling because of lack of interest . As our membership numbers drop our fund raising ability suffers . We are also greatly affected by covid . The pull tabs were something we could do that was not labor intensive . We have very limited opportunities for fund raising . The $600 we raised with the pull tabs might not seem like a lot to you , but to the senior citizens and underprivileged youth we help it meant someone would have to do without . Thank you for your time and attention .

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Gambling is bad social policy; it is bad economic policy; and it is bad governmental policy. Moreover, it undermines the moral foundations of society and invites corruption in government. Gambling destroys families. Gambling is a major cause of family neglect. Many of the social costs associated with gambling come from its mindset. As people get caught up in a gambling frenzy, they begin to neglect their families. Money spent on lottery tickets or at horse tracks is frequently not risk capital but is income to meet family needs. In 1 Timothy 5:8, Paul says that a person who refuses to care for his family is worse than an infidel. Parents must provide for their children (2 Corinthians 12:14) and eat the bread of their labors (2 Thessalonians 3:12). When gambling is legalized it tempts people to neglect their God-mandated responsibility to care for their families, and these families often end up on welfare. Gambling destroys the work ethic. Colossians 3:23-24 says, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” And 2 Thessalonians 3:7,10 says, “For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. . . . For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” Gambling breeds a form of covetousness. The Tenth Commandment admonishes us not to covet. Coveting, greed, and selfishness are the base emotions that entice us to gamble. We should be concerned about gambling if for no other reason than the effect it has on the weaker brother and how it will affect the compulsive gambler. State-sponsored gambling makes it harder for the compulsive gambler to reform. Legalized gambling becomes an institutionalized form of greed. Gambling is a form of state-sponsored greed. Romans 13 states that government is to be a minister of God. Government should provide order in society and promote public virtue. Legalized gambling undercuts government’s role and subverts the moral fabric of society through greed and selfishness promoted by a state-sponsored vice. The Twentieth Century Fund Research Group: “Gambling’s get-rich-quick appeal appears to mock capitalism’s core values: disciplined work habits, thrift, prudence, adherence to routine, and the relationship between effort and reward.” These core values of the work ethic are all part of the free enterprise system. Gambling corrupts these values and replaces them with greed and selfishness. Rather than depending upon hard work, gamblers depend instead upon luck and chance.

The city has chosen ONE as a gaming host. This bill is identical to Morrissey's SB203 which puts limits on a casino referendum in Richmond for five years. We in the city of Richmond feels as Mr. Morrissey have committed MUTINY on us. We see this bill (HB-1134) only as a designed to remove Richmond city from becoming a host city, which in the end becomes Richmond being remove indefinite. PLEASE VOTE NO to HB-1134.

I am writing in support of SB576, “Sports betting; allows betting on Virginia college sports.” Not allowing wagers on Virginia schools is counter productive. Some individuals will wager every day. On the flip side you have individuals who are mostly interested in wagering on their alma maters, perhaps a Tech or a UVA game, etc. By not allowing wagering on Virginia schools, it forces these players to continue their relationships with illegal bookmakers instead of a licensed sportsbook. As a result, it creates a situation where players are forced to commit a criminal act to bet on their teams, in addition to Virginia not receiving any tax revenue from the transactions. I understand the arguments that were voiced in 2020 about shady characters trying to influence college athletes in Virginia to fix games. These occurrences are infrequent but are still a legitimate concern. The way to address this is to create harsh penalties for anyone caught attempting to do such a thing, including players. SB576 is a good bill and I will support it’s passage. Yours truly, Tad Berman

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The city has chosen ONE as a gaming host. This bill is identical to Morrissey's SB203 which puts limits on a casino referendum in Richmond for five years. We in the city of Richmond feels as Mr. Morrissey have committed MUTINY on us. We see this bill (HB-1134) only as a designed to remove Richmond city from becoming a host city, which in the end becomes Richmond being remove indefinite. PLEASE VOTE NO to HB-1134.

I OPPOSE SEN. KIM TAYLORS H B 1134 WE NEED CASINO ONE IN THIS THIS GREAT CITY OF RICHMOND VA. CASINO ONE WILL CARRY US TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND I MUST ADD THE NEXT LEVEL IS OUR PRODUCTIVE FUTURE THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

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The city has chosen ONE as a gaming host. This bill is identical to Morrissey's SB203 which puts limits on a casino referendum in Richmond for five years. We in the city of Richmond feels as Mr. Morrissey have committed MUTINY on us. We see this bill (HB-1134) only as a designed to remove Richmond city from becoming a host city, which in the end becomes Richmond being remove indefinite. PLEASE VOTE NO to HB-1134.