File Code: Taxes - Miscellaneous
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 621/95 - B&T
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 961
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Van Hollen, Currie, Forehand, Frosh, Hoffman, Hogan, Lawlah,
McFadden, Pinsky, Ruben, and Teitelbaum
- 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 25% 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.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Budget and Taxation
- 2/14
- Hearing 3/1 at 12:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Sen. Astle) Adopted
- 3/26
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/28
- Third Reading Passed (24-23)
House Action
- 3/26
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 3/29
- Hearing 4/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/8
- Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- Senator Gloria Gary Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- APPROPRIATIONS
- BUDGETS
- 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 (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 928290/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1996 at: 11:19
Status: Adopted