File Code: Miscellaneous
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 984/97 - W&M
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Marriott, Healey, Cryor, Rosenberg, Grosfeld, R.
Baker, Goldwater, Crumlin, Watson, and Doory
- 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 additional rate increases over a 5-year period up
to $1.86 per pack, subject to specified contingencies; providing for
the distribution of tobacco tax revenue for a tobacco crop conversion
program, the Tobacco Tax Health Protection Fund, and school
construction; etc.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/5 at 1:00 p.m.
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
- Delegate Rushern L. Baker, III, District 22B
- Delegate Michael A. Crumlin, District 25
- Delegate Jean B. Cryor, District 15
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate Carmena F. Watson, District 44
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADVERTISING -see also- LABELING; SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
- AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- CIGARETTES -see also- SMOKING
- COMPTROLLER
- FARMLAND
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- REVENUE AND TAXES -see also specific taxes -
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- TOBACCO
- TRANSPORTATION -see also- BUSES; MASS TRANSIT; RAILROADS
- YOUTH -see also- JUVENILE CAUSES; MINORS
- 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:
None offered
