On Jan. 1, Delegate Baxter Ennis (R-VA) filed Home Invoice 1585 to ban the sale of weight-loss or muscle-building dietary supplements and over-the-counter medicine to minors. The invoice is anticipated to be formally launched to the Virginia Home of Delegates starting Jan. 8.
“No particular person shall promote to, distribute to, buy for, or knowingly allow the acquisition by any particular person youthful than 18 years of age, understanding or having purpose to imagine that such particular person is youthful than 18 years of age, an over-the-counter food plan tablet or dietary complement for weight reduction or muscle constructing,” HB 1585 reads.
In December 2024, the New Hampshire Home of Representatives additionally filed an age restriction invoice listed as Home Invoice 0516. The textual content is at present unavailable, however the invoice is titled “Prohibiting the sale of over-the-counter weight reduction and muscle constructing dietary supplements to minors.” The invoice is co-sponsored by Representatives Alicia Gregg (D), Lucy Weber (D), Mark Pearson (R), Gaby Grossman (D), Casandra Levesque (D) and Christal Lloyd (D).
Virginia and New Hampshire at the moment are the most recent states to file age restrictions payments since late 2023. The overall is now as much as six states alongside Texas, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.
To learn the Virginia invoice, go to https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1585/textual content/HB1585. To learn the New Hampshire invoice, go to https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/lsr_search/LSR_Results.aspx.
