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2025 · Regular session · Senate bill

SB1316

SB1316 extends an existing restriction on outdoor cigarette and tobacco advertising near churches and schools to e-cigarette advertising.

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Official caption: Relating to a prohibition on e-cigarette advertising in certain locations.

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Official report lists Senate author(s): Cook. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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Bill highlights

Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.

SB1316 extends an existing restriction on outdoor cigarette and tobacco advertising near churches and schools to e-cigarette advertising.
The existing definition of “sign” covers outdoor advertising or informational media visible from the main-traveled way of a street or highway, including billboards, posters, displays and light devices.
The 1,000-foot distance is measured from the institution's nearest property line to the street or highway point closest to the sign, along street lines and directly across intersections.

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What does it do?

SB1316 extends an existing restriction on outdoor cigarette and tobacco advertising near churches and schools to e-cigarette advertising. Subject to the existing exceptions, a covered sign may not be closer than 1,000 feet to a church or school. The governor signed the bill May 21, 2025; it took effect September 1, 2025. This is a sign-location restriction, not a general ban on selling e-cigarettes within that distance. Final law; Official history.

The existing definition of “sign” covers outdoor advertising or informational media visible from the main-traveled way of a street or highway, including billboards, posters, displays and light devices. A “school” is a public or private elementary or secondary school; a “church” is a religious-organization-owned facility used primarily for religious services. The bill imports the existing e-cigarette definition from section 161.081. It does not create a new blanket restriction on every indoor or online advertisement. Existing definitions; Referenced e-cigarette definition; Final law, section 2.

The 1,000-foot distance is measured from the institution’s nearest property line to the street or highway point closest to the sign, along street lines and directly across intersections. It is not simply a straight-line circle drawn around a school building. Final law, section 161.122(b).

What changed along the way?

The existing professional-sports exception remains: the section does not apply to signs on or in facilities owned or leased by a professional sports franchise, or in facilities hosting professional sports events at least 10 times in 12 months. The statutory facility definition includes specified connected or immediately adjoining franchise-owned or leased property. The act also adds e-cigarettes to the wording of the old-sign exception for signs that, before September 1, 1997, were less than 1,000 feet but not less than 500 feet from a church or school. That historical exception is not a new 500-foot rule for signs installed today. Existing exceptions, subsections (c)–(e); Final law, section 3.

Placing or authorizing a sign in violation of this section remains a Class C misdemeanor; the ordinary individual punishment is a fine of up to $500. SB1316 extends the covered products rather than creating a new penalty level. It updates the subchapter heading but does not amend the separate advertising-fee section. Existing offense, subsection (f); Class C punishment; Separate advertising-fee provision; Final law.

All five substantive bill versions match: introduced, Senate committee, Senate-passed, House committee and enrolled. The House history records a corrected committee report, but the text comparison reveals no substantive change to the act. The amendment index lists no separate amendments. Introduced bill; Senate committee text; Senate-passed text; House committee text; Text-version index; Amendment index.

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Official bill versions

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Advertisers and people authorizing covered signs must account for e-cigarettes when checking location, measurement and exceptions. Schools, churches and nearby communities may see fewer covered e-cigarette signs in the restricted area, but the act supplies no measured reduction in exposure or youth use. It does not establish the legality of a particular sign without the location and exception facts. Final law; Existing framework.

The March 29 fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal impact, including on courts and correctional resources. It lists no local fiscal implication and assumes any local enforcement, prosecution, supervision or confinement impact would not be significant. It does not quantify private sign-removal, replacement or advertising costs. The act makes no appropriation. Fiscal note; Final law.

Official sources

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