Bill Text: HI HB2400 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax; Legal Notice on Cigarette Shipping Containers
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-19 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Nakashima, Thielen, Tokioka excused (3). [HB2400 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB2400-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO CIGARETTE SHIPPING LABELS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 245-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) This section shall not apply to the shipment of cigarettes if any of the following conditions are met:
(1) The cigarettes are exempt from taxes as provided by section 245-3(b) or are otherwise exempt from the applicability of this chapter as provided by section 245-62;
(2) All applicable Hawaii taxes on the cigarettes are paid in accordance with the requirements of this chapter; or
(3) The person or entity engaged in the business of selling, advertising, or offering cigarettes for sale and transfer or shipment:
(A) Has fully complied with all of the requirements of chapter 10A (commencing with section 375) of title 15 of the United States Code, otherwise known as the Jenkins Act; and
(B) Includes on the outside of the shipping container an externally visible and easily legible notice located on the same side of the shipping container as the address to which the shipping container is delivered stating as follows:
"CIGARETTES:
HAWAII LAW PROHIBITS THE SALE OF CIGARETTES TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER [EIGHTEEN]
TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE AND REQUIRES THE PAYMENT OF ALL APPLICABLE
TAXES. YOU ARE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL APPLICABLE UNPAID TAXES ON THESE
CIGARETTES.""
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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BY REQUEST
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Report Title:
Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax; Legal Notice on Cigarette Shipping Containers
Description:
Amends the legal notice required on cigarette shipping containers to reference the age of twenty-one rather than the age of eighteen.
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