Virginia House Bill 160 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-02-14 - House: Left in Finance
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Cigarette and other tobacco products; tax rates. Increases the cigarette tax rate from 30 cents ($0.30) per pack to $1.45 per pack and increases the cigarette excise tax on roll-your-own tobacco from 10 percent to 50 percent. The bill also increases the tax rate on certain other tobacco products from 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price to 50 percent. The additional revenue attributable to the increase in taxes is distributed as follows: (i) four percent to the Virginia Department of Health for the Virginia state tobacco quitline, (ii) four percent to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to prevent tobacco use, and (iii) the remaining amount to increase appropriations to localities for car tax relief.

Cigarette and other tobacco products; increases tax rates.

Del. Patrick Hope [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-14		House: Left in Finance
2012-01-20		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2012-01-12		House: Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #3
2012-01-06		House: Referred to Committee on Finance
2012-01-06		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12103123D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	366	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1001	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1018	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1021.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1021.05	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB160
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB160+hil