A bill regulating the selling of vape products is awaiting Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signature after both the Iowa State House and Senate passed it last week.House File 2677 would ban retailers from selling vape products not listed on a state-approved registry. State Sen. Chris Cournoyer, R-LeClaire, said the new law would remove unsafe products from store shelves.”What they’re carrying right now is unregulated, it’s untested and we don’t know what’s in these products. And people are ingesting them into their bodies, and they’re very dangerous,” she said.She also said vaping regulations would then also be easier to enforce.”It gives us an enforcement mechanism as well and gives them that list so that we can go in and know that they have an updated list that says what can and can’t be sold in these vape stores,” Cournoyer said.Ashley Hartman is with Global Source Distribution, the company bringing products to many vapor shops like Central Iowa Vapors. She said the bill would make over 99% of the business’s products illegal.”Say somebody comes in, that’s a pack-a-day smoker and they do Marlboro Reds. What their content of nicotine that they’re going to need is going to be very different than what a Marlboro Light user is going to need,” Hartman said.She said the business was put at a disadvantage even before the current bill. All 23 e-cigarettes currently approved by the FDA had to submit premarket review applications by Sept. 9, 2020. Since her products weren’t approved by the deadline, Hartman said she was among the over 25 million applications the FDA rejected.”That’s like saying to car manufacturers that they can only ever manufacture a car that dates back to 2020. In all consumers, you cannot buy any other cars except 2020. Is that realistic?” she said.Gov. Reynolds would need to sign the bill into law by the middle of May.That would be 30 days after the end of the legislative session. If she does, the law would be enacted starting on July 1.

DES MOINES, Iowa —

A bill regulating the selling of vape products is awaiting Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signature after both the Iowa State House and Senate passed it last week.

House File 2677 would ban retailers from selling vape products not listed on a state-approved registry. State Sen. Chris Cournoyer, R-LeClaire, said the new law would remove unsafe products from store shelves.

“What they’re carrying right now is unregulated, it’s untested and we don’t know what’s in these products. And people are ingesting them into their bodies, and they’re very dangerous,” she said.

She also said vaping regulations would then also be easier to enforce.

“It gives us an enforcement mechanism as well and gives them that list so that we can go in and know that they have an updated list that says what can and can’t be sold in these vape stores,” Cournoyer said.

Ashley Hartman is with Global Source Distribution, the company bringing products to many vapor shops like Central Iowa Vapors. She said the bill would make over 99% of the business’s products illegal.

“Say somebody comes in, that’s a pack-a-day smoker and they do Marlboro Reds. What their content of nicotine that they’re going to need is going to be very different than what a Marlboro Light user is going to need,” Hartman said.

She said the business was put at a disadvantage even before the current bill. All 23 e-cigarettes currently approved by the FDA had to submit premarket review applications by Sept. 9, 2020. Since her products weren’t approved by the deadline, Hartman said she was among the over 25 million applications the FDA rejected.

“That’s like saying to car manufacturers that they can only ever manufacture a car that dates back to 2020. In all consumers, you cannot buy any other cars except 2020. Is that realistic?” she said.

Gov. Reynolds would need to sign the bill into law by the middle of May.

That would be 30 days after the end of the legislative session. If she does, the law would be enacted starting on July 1.