South Carolina Senate Bill 24 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-08 - Referred to Committee on Finance
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend Section 12-21-625, Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, Relating To The Surtax On Cigarettes, Including The Definition Of "cigarette", So As To Revise The Weight Limitation On Cigarettes From Three Pounds Or Less Per One Thousand Cigarettes To Four And One-half Pounds Or Less Per One Thousand Cigarettes And To Exempt Those Wrapped Totally In Tobacco Leaf With No Filter, And To Define "cigarette" To Include 0.325 Ounces Of Tobacco Likely Intended To Be Purchased To Roll Your Own Cigarettes; And To Require The Director Of The Department Of Revenue To Determine If There Are Barriers To The Enforcement Or Collection Of Cigarette Taxes, To Make Recommendations To Remove These Barriers, And To Report Their Findings To The General Assembly.

Cigarette surtax

Sen. Bradley Hutto [D]

Sen. Darrell Jackson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2019-01-08	Senate	Introduced and read first time
2018-12-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2018-12-12	Senate	Prefiled

H3299 (Similar To) 2019-01-08 - Referred to Committee on Ways and Means

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
12	21	625	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=0024&session=123&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess123_2019-2020/prever/24_20181212.htm