File Code: Taxes - Miscellaneous
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Hoffman
- Entitled:
-
State Tobacco Tax - Smoking and Cancer Prevention Fund
Increasing the tobacco tax rate from 36 to 61 cents per package of 20
cigarettes; reducing from 1.36% to 0.802623% the discount allowed a
wholesaler for tax stamps for FY 1996 and FY 1997; distributing the
additional tobacco tax revenue resulting from the increase to a
specified fund for specified purposes; providing for a program to
encourage and assist tobacco growers in the State to convert tobacco
farmland to other productive uses; providing for grants to the
Maryland Association of County Health Officers; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Budget and Taxation
- 2/14
- Hearing 3/1 at 12:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation
House Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
- APPROPRIATIONS
- COMPTROLLER
- COUNTIES
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS
- FARMLAND
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- REVENUE AND TAXES - GENERAL
- SMOKING -see also- CIGARETTES
- TOBACCO
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Agriculture
- (
7-501
)
- Health - General
- (
24-901 ,
24-902 ,
24-903
)
- Tax - General
- (
2-1603 ,
12-105 ,
12-303
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available