File Code: Miscellaneous
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Marriott, Healey, and Rawlings
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Tobacco Tax - Tobacco Tax Health Protection Fund
 
Imposing the tobacco tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes at
a rate of 20% of the wholesale price of the other tobacco products;
increasing the tax rate for cigarettes from 36 cents to 51 cents per
pack; providing for a Tobacco Crop Conversion Program; creating a
special fund for alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment
services and for tobacco awareness advertising; providing for the
distribution of tobacco tax revenue for the crop conversion program,
the Tobacco Tax Health Protection Fund, and school construction; etc.
House Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 2/5
 - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/26
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
 - 3/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Special Order 3/28 (Delegate C. Davis) Adopted
 - 3/26
 - Floor Amendment (Delegate Arnick)
 -      Motion vote previous question (Delegate Curran) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Arnick) Rejected (51-70)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Stup) Rejected (36-81)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Morgan)
 -      Motion vote previous question (Delegate C. Mitchell) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Morgan) Rejected (45-67)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Proctor) Rejected
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Kelly) Rejected (43-60)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Wood)
 -      Motion vote previous question (Delegate Barve) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Wood) Rejected (57-63)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Owings) Rejected (52-62)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Bissett) Rejected (46-67)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Frush)
 -      Motion vote previous question (Delegate Barve) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Frush) Adopted (65-57)
 -      Motion Special Order later today (Delegate Flanagan) Rejected (35-75)
 -      Recommit to Committee Ways and Means (89-39)
 
Senate Action
- No Action
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
 - Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
 - Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - ADVERTISING -see also- LABELING; SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
 - AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
 - ALCOHOLISM
 - CIGARETTES -see also- SMOKING
 - COMPTROLLER
 - COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
 - DRUGS -see also-CONTROLLED DANG.SUBST.;DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVG
 - FARMLAND
 - HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
 - HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 - REVENUE AND TAXES -see also specific taxes -
 - RULES AND REGULATIONS
 - TOBACCO
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Agriculture
 - (
 7-501 
)
 -   Business Regulation
 - (
 16-219 
)
 -   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 ,
 12-303 ,
 12-306 ,
 13-408 ,
 13-834 ,
 13-835 ,
 13-836 ,
 13-837 ,
 13-839 ,
 13-841 ,
 13-842 ,
 13-1014 ,
 13-1015 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 092294/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:19
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 112892/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 10:39
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 172091/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:11
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 272096/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:26
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 335237/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 27, 1997     at: 10:49
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 342596/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:43
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 462791/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:23
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 532799/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:58
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 832598/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:53
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 922397/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 28, 1997     at: 11:06
 Status: Rejected