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2004 SESSION
SB 465 Cigarettes and tobacco products; tax increased revenue deposited in Health Care Fund.
Introduced by: John H. Chichester | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Taxation; cigarettes and tobacco products. Increases the state excise tax on cigarettes from two and one-half cents to 20 cents per pack on July 1, 2004, and 35 cents per pack beginning July 1, 2005. The bill also provides for a 10 percent tax on other tobacco products at the wholesale level. The tax on other tobacco products is paid monthly through the filing of returns.
All revenue from cigarette and other tobacco products taxes would be deposited into a special fund known as the Virginia Health Care Fund. Moneys deposited to the fund would be used solely for the provision of health care services including, but not limited to Medicaid payments, disease diagnosis, prevention and control, and community health services.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/04 Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/14/04 042988148 pdf | impact statement
- 02/17/04 Senate: Committee substitute printed 043042712-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/04 Senate: Floor substitute printed 043056148-S2 (O'Brien) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/14/04 Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/14/04 042988148
- 01/14/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 02/17/04 Senate: Committee substitute printed 043042712-S1
- 02/17/04 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (11-Y 3-N 1-A)
- 02/18/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/04 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/04 Senate: Read second time
- 02/19/04 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/19/04 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 043042712-S1
- 02/19/04 Senate: Committee substitute reconsidered (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/04 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/04 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 043042712-S1
- 02/19/04 Senate: Floor substitute printed 043056148-S2 (O'Brien)
- 02/19/04 Senate: No action taken on floor substitute by Senator O'Brien
- 02/19/04 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB465S1
- 02/20/04 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 12-N 1-A)
- 02/20/04 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (26-Y 12-N 1-A)
- 02/20/04 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/23/04 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/04 House: Read first time
- 02/23/04 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 02/25/04 House: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (17-Y 5-N)