South Carolina Senate Bill 575 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 22 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-22 - Referred to Committee on Finance
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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. Chauncey Gregory [R]

Sen. Darrell Jackson [D]

Sen. Katrina Shealy [R]

Sen. John Scott [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-22	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2017-03-22	Senate	Introduced and read first time

H3664 (Similar To) 2018-04-04 - Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Huggins

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=0575&session=122&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/prever/575_20170322.htm