Pleasant Valley School District stands to receive about $60,000 from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit with JUUL Labs Inc.

During the school board meeting on Thursday, Mark Fitzgerald, the school district’s solicitor, updated the school board on the recent developments.

“Districts are going to be receiving a lump sum of money and then allotted based on a proportion of student enrollment at various school districts,” he said.

JUUL is involved in multiple lawsuits nationwide. Some have settled and others are being litigated.

Fitzgerald did not say through which class-action lawsuit the school district would be receiving the money.

As recent as Wednesday, the e-cigarette maker agreed to pay $462 million to settle claims in six states, according to published reports. The reports said the lawsuit claims that JUUL unlawfully marketed an addictive product to minors. JUUL did not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement.

Altria Group, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and previously JUUL’s largest investor, is also facing lawsuits in connection to JUUL’s advertising.

In December 2022, JUUL settled a lawsuit with the state of Pennsylvania and awarded the state $38.8 million.

According to the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, the lawsuit said JUUL violated Pennsylvania’s Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection law by jeopardizing the health of its citizens in particular minors who were targeted with the products.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported in its “2022 Findings on Youth Tobacco Use” that in November 2022, 11.3% of middle school and high school students nationwide admitted to using a tobacco product within the last 30 days. That’s 3.08 million children. Of that group, 9.4% of them used e-cigarettes.

The Pleasant Valley school board approved purchasing health safety and vaping device sensors for the middle school and high school bathrooms. The devices were expected to cost $20,970.42 at the high school for installation, program and testing cost, and $17,357.38 at the middle school.

Both purchases would be covered by Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund allocations.