File Code: Miscellaneous
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1073
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Van Hollen, Pinsky, McFadden, Ruben, Blount, Currie,
Conway, Dorman, Forehand, Frosh, Green, Hollinger, Kelley, Roesser,
Teitelbaum, Trotter, and Madden
- Entitled:
-
Maryland Children's Initiative - Tobacco Tax for Children's Health
and Learning
Imposing the tobacco tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes at
a rate of 20% of the wholesale price; increasing the tax rate for
cigarettes for Fiscal Year 1999 from 36 to 86 cents per pack and
providing for future rate increases subject to specified
contingencies; dedicating specified tobacco tax revenues for specified
purposes; providing for a Tobacco Tax Health Protection Program, a
Tobacco Crop Conversion Program, and various State grants to county
boards of education and other local entities; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Budget and Taxation & Judicial Proceedings
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:30 p.m.
- 3/27
- Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Senator Decatur W. Trotter, District 24
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES
- AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- CIGARETTES -see also- SMOKING
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- COMPTROLLER
- CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES -see also- DRUGS
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- DAY CARE
- EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
- EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- FARMLAND
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- REVENUE AND TAXES -see also specific taxes -
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SEARCH AND SEIZURE
- SMOKING -see also- CIGARETTES
- TOBACCO
- WOMEN
- YOUTH -see also- JUVENILE CAUSES; MINORS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Agriculture
- (
7-501
)
- Business Regulation
- (
16-219
)
- Education
- (
5-212 ,
5-213 ,
5-214
)
- Health - General
- (
24-901 ,
24-902 ,
24-903
)
- Article - 49D Office for Children, Youth, and Families
- (
12
)
- Tax - General
- (
2-1603 ,
2-1604 ,
2-1605 ,
2-1606 ,
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
