1996 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 961

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

Synopsis:

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.

Legislative History

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 )

Documents:

Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments: None available