HB 1064 has been RESCHEDULED until March 16 at 1:30pm, MST.
HB 1064 is the first bill up in committee.
Continue to ask your store employees and customers to make calls to the 11 members of the State House Health & Insurance committee.
Dear Colorado Vaping Store Owner and Ally,
We hope you are doing well.
Attached please find two QR codes in one PDF document that Wali, a vaping store owner, created for you. The first QR code contains an email and the second QR code contains the email addresses for the 11 State House Representatives who serve on the Health and Insurance committee - the committee that will debate HB 1064 on March 16 at 1:30pm. Please continue to email and call these Representatives between now and March 16.
Pay particular attention to the following Representatives: Representative Brianna Titone, Representative David Ortiz, and Representative Karen McCormick.
We still need store owners, vaping store employees to sign up to testify either in-person or virtually for three minutes of testimony on March 16 at 1:30pm.
The committee Chairwoman (Representative Susan Lontine) will most likely alternate between proponents and opponents of HB 1064.
To testify in-person for three minutes, simply show up on March 16 by 12:30pm and sign up to testify.
To testify virtually, follow the steps in the link below beginning with “Remotely via Zoom”.
https://www2.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2022A/commsumm.nsf/signIn.xsp
Regarding messaging, you will have three minutes so collect your thoughts, speak clearly, respectfully, passionately, and boldly.
Always address the Chair of the Health and Insurance committee as “Chairwoman” and address each Representative as “Representative Last Name”.
Regarding talking points, if you are a vaping store owner, share how you prevent youth from accessing vaping products, the negative consequences of a flavor ban (it will close your doors and bankrupt you), your overall positive economic impact of owning a store (number of employees, taxes you pay, number of sales), and how you help customers stay alive by quitting smoking.
If you are a store employee, share similar talking points listed above and share your story of how you got involved in the vaping sector.
If you are a customer, share how you use flavored vaping products to quit smoking more harmful cigarettes.
Next, continue to ask your store employees and customers to sign the www.Change.org petition at: https://chng.it/DKKhgSZsrG
We have over 2,300 signatures. Let’s increase this number to 5,000 signatures.
Next, thank you to those store owners who signed up to speak to the media. We will speak to the media outlets next week.
If you have not signed up to join RMSFA, please do so.
Visit https://www.rmsfa.org/join-now to donate. Thanks for all of your help!