And there was some major action around efforts to curb youth vaping that could get a financial boost under a bill being considered in Frankfort and 2024, Kentucky won a settlement against Joule and other e-cigarette companies for marketing to children.

That money goes straight into the general fund.

Sponsor of Senate bill 74, Senator Craig Richardson, wants those dollars put towards education and vape prevention for youth in Kentucky.

He was joined in the Senate Health Services Committee by teenagers from the Student Advisory Council who say, they say, or they see their peers vaping all the time.

At its core.

This is legislation.

That is about accountability.

Those companies that were involved in these misleading practices and, and where litigation found that they had liability, they should all, do their part to allow these funds to go to the education of these youth.

And now our students are underperforming in school because they're sneaking out to bathrooms to vape.

Unable to be the athletes they once were because their damaged lungs can't handle the activity.

And they're facing a mental health crisis because Jewel promised us that these products were exactly what students like Delaney and me needed to receive to relieve our stress.

Senate Bill 74 passed unanimously out of the Senate Health Services Committee today.

If signed into law, a total of $6 million over the next few years would be allocated to youth tobacco and vape prevention.