US Congress Senate Bill 1403 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: Introduced on July 21 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-07-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

IDEA Full Funding Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to reauthorize and make appropriations through FY2021 for the grant program to assist states and outlying areas in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities. Saving Lives by Lowering Tobacco Use Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase excise taxes on cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, snuff, and chewing tobacco. Imposes an excise tax on smokeless tobacco sold in discrete single-use units. Taxes other tobacco products at a level of tax equivalent to the tax rate for cigarettes on an estimated per use basis. Provides for annual inflation adjustments to excise taxes on tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes.

IDEA Full Funding Act

Sen. Tom Harkin [D-IA]	Sen. Mark Begich [D-AK]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Tim Johnson [D-SD]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-07-21	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
2011-07-21	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4806)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1403/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1403/BILLS-112s1403is.pdf