Florida Senate Bill 988 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 5 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-05-05 - Died in Regulated Industries
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Revising the amounts and applicability of the cigarette surcharge and tax, respectively, which are levied upon the sale, receipt, purchase, possession, consumption, handling, distribution, and use of cigarettes; deleting provisions that authorize the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to authorize manufacturers to distribute specified free sample packages of cigarettes without affixing surcharge and tax stamps under certain circumstances and that provide the basis for a certain surcharge and tax, etc.

Cigarette Surcharge and Tax

Sen. Gary Farmer [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-05	Senate	Died in Regulated Industries
2017-05-05	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2017-03-07	Senate	Introduced
2017-02-23	Senate	Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax; Appropriations
2017-02-16	Senate	Filed

H0649 (Similar To) 2017-05-05 - Died in Ways and Means Committee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
210	011		Amended Code	See Bill Text
210	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
210	04		Amended Code	See Bill Text
210	06		Amended Code	See Bill Text
210	085		Amended Code	See Bill Text
215	5602		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/988
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0988/BillText/Filed/HTML