File Code: Miscellaneous
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 588/96 - B&T
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Van Hollen, Hoffman, Forehand, Conway, Teitelbaum, McFadden,
Ruben, Pinsky, Lawlah, Currie, and Frosh
- 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 wholesale price; requiring the Comptroller to
distribute the revenue from the tobacco tax on smokeless tobacco
products to the Tobacco Awareness Fund; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Budget and Taxation & Judicial Proceedings
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/19 at 1:30 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- 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
- CIGARETTES -see also- SMOKING
- COMPTROLLER
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS
- FARMLAND
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- 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 ,
12-306 ,
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)