Indiana Senate committee advances vaping law overhaul

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's problematic vaping law, which granted a monopoly to one company and sparked an FBI probe, would be drastically overhauled under a measure that a state Senate committee advanced Wednesday.

Very little of the current law would be left standing under the bill by Sen. Randy Head, a Logansport Republican.

"Indiana had instituted a protectionist regime," Head said of the bill, which was advanced to the full Senate on an 8-1 committee vote. "That was something we set out from the beginning to try and get rid of."

GOP leaders pledged this session to overhaul the law, which advocates say led companies to move operations to nearby states.

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