Sec. 17a-718. Nicotine addiction programs for persons under twenty-one years of age. Settlement disbursement. Report.
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(a)Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, any moneys received in the preceding fiscal year pursuant to the stipulated judgment in State of Connecticut v. JUUL Labs, Inc., shall be disbursed to the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services for distribution to the regional behavioral health action organizations, as described in section 17a-484f , for the funding of programs to support the abatement, mitigation, cessation, reduction or prevention of the use of nicotine or nicotine-synthetic products by residents under twenty-one years of age in accordance with such judgment.
(b)Not later than September 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services shall submit a report to the board of trustees of the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund established pursuant to section 4-28f detailing how the moneys disbursed in the preceding fiscal year were distributed by the commissioner and summarizing how the regional behavioral health action organizations expended such moneys for the purposes described in subsection
(a)of this section in the preceding fiscal year.