Amend SB 2024 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 1, strike lines 5 and 6, and substitute the following:
SECTION 1. Sections 161.081(1-a)(A) and (B), Health and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
(2) On page 1, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:
(B) The term "e-cigarette" does not include a prescription medical device, prescription medication, or other prescribed substance unrelated to the cessation of smoking.
(3) On page 1, line 21, immediately after the period, insert the following:
The term e-cigarette does not include a prescription medication or other prescribed substance unrelated to the cessation of smoking.
(4) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. It is the intent of the legislature that every provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to every person, group of persons, or circumstances, is severable from each other. If any application of any provision in this Act to any person, group of persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be invalid for any reason, the remaining applications of that provision to all other persons and circumstances shall be severed and may not be affected.