File Code: Taxes - Miscellaneous
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 621/95 - B&T
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 588
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Hixson, Cryor, and Beck
- Entitled:
-
Taxation of Smokeless Tobacco Products - Tobacco Awareness Fund
Creating a Tobacco Awareness Fund to be administered by the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene and to be used for a crop conversion
program in the Department of Agriculture and for disseminating cancer
prevention messages designed to discourage the use of tobacco
products; extending the tobacco tax to smokeless tobacco products at
the rate of 20% of the manufacturer's price; requiring the Comptroller
to distribute the revenue from the tobacco tax on smokeless tobacco
products to the Tobacco Awareness Fund; etc.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/14 at 2:00 p.m.
- 2/13
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/28 at 2:00 p.m.
- 3/21
- Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Raymond Beck, District 39
- Delegate Jean Cryor, District 15
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- COMPTROLLER
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS
- FARMLAND
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- REVENUE AND TAXES - GENERAL
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- TOBACCO
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Agriculture
- (
7-501
)
- Health - General
- (
24-901 ,
24-902 ,
24-903
)
- Tax - General
- (
2-1603 ,
12-101 ,
12-101 ,
12-101 ,
12-102 ,
12-103 ,
12-104 ,
12-105 ,
12-202 ,
12-203 ,
12-302 ,
12-306 ,
13-408
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available