A provision to provide $3 million in competitive grants focused on achieving a statewide policy to ban candy-flavored tobacco products and free tobacco samples was deleted by the JFC.

The funding request was made by the Department of Health Services as part of a request to spend nearly $24 million in federal stimulus funding over the next two years for prevention and wellness programs such as obesity and tobacco use prevention.

The committee, in a motion from Rep. Phil Montgomery, R-Ashwaubenon, removed the language on banning flavored tobacco and ordered the Doyle administration to resubmit the request.

-- By Greg Bump