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Business and Community Leaders Urge Congress to Oppose Commercial Rest Areas
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ NATSO, representing truckstops and travel plazas, and a diverse coalition that includes restaurants, fuel retailers, city governments, trucking firms and blind entrepreneurs today urged lawmakers to oppose efforts to commercialize Interstate rest areas as Congress considers infrastructure legislation.
The groups, which represent hundreds of thousands of mostly small businesses that operate near the Interstate Highway System, urged lawmakers to reject proposals to carve out any exceptions to the longstanding ban that prohibits state departments of transportation from unfairly competing against the private sector by selling food, fuel or other commercial services, including electric vehicle charging, at Interstate rest areas.
Connecticut & Maryland Eye Statewide Bans on Flavored Tobacco
NATIONAL REPORT Lawmakers in two more states are considering putting an end to the sale of flavored tobacco products within their borders.
If the measures get signed into law, Connecticut and Maryland would follow the lead of Massachusetts and California. However, California s flavored tobacco ban is on hold as it prepares to appear before the voters in the November 2022 election, as
Convenience Store News previously reported.
On Feb. 8, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong submitted testimony in support of state Senate Bill 326, An Act Prohibiting the Sale of Flavored Cigarettes, Tobacco Products, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Vapor Products.
Hartford is once again pursuing a ban on the sale of all flavored tobacco products, reviving an issue that was overshadowed last year by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
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