PROTECT Act
Sponsored By: Senator Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a CDC-led Reducing Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Initiative to study and cut e-cigarette use among youth and young adults.
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It would fund research, prevention campaigns, provider guidance, and grants to health departments and Freely Associated State and Tribal organizations.
- Youth and families: Prioritizes research into who uses e-cigarettes, why, flavors and marketing, nicotine delivery, and cessation behavior. It also calls for a coordinated public campaign with the FDA and the Surgeon General to explain harms and reduce initiation.
- Health providers and schools: Directs development and distribution of guidance for clinicians and schools on screening, treating, and referring youth to age-appropriate cessation services. It encourages technology-delivered supports and provider education on cessation services available through Medicaid and CHIP.
- State, local, territorial, Freely Associated State, and Tribal health departments: Continues CDC cooperative agreement funding and evaluation of community and school-based prevention and cessation strategies.
*Authorizes $100.0 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out the initiative.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
CDC youth vaping prevention funding
This bill would authorize $100 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 for the Reducing Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Initiative at CDC. The money would fund CDC activities and cooperative grants to State, local, territorial, Freely Associated State health departments, and Tribal organizations. This authorization would not itself appropriate the money; Congress would still need to appropriate the funds.
New CDC youth e-cigarette program
This bill would create the Reducing Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Initiative at CDC. The initiative would fund research on product types, nicotine delivery, biomarkers, use patterns, flavors, advertising exposure, reasons for use, and quit behaviors among youth and young adults. It would develop and share guidance for health care providers and schools, run a public education campaign with the FDA Commissioner and the Surgeon General, and fund prevention and cessation grants and quitlines to State, local, territorial, Freely Associated State health departments, and Tribal organizations. HHS would have to avoid duplicating other HHS activities and post a strategy within 90 days after enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
CT • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
MA • D
Sponsored 8/6/2026
Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 8/6/2026
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 8/6/2026
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
WI • D
Sponsored 8/6/2026
Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
RI • D
Sponsored 8/6/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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