Virginia House Bill 830 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-17 - Left in Finance
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

State tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products; tax rate. Increases the state (i) cigarette tax rate from $0.30 per pack to $1.50 per pack, (ii) cigarette excise tax on roll-your-own tobacco from 10 percent to 50 percent of the manufacturer's sales price, and (iii) tax rate on certain other tobacco products by an equivalent percentage. Ten percent of the revenue from the three taxes shall be used for Virginia Department of Health programs for cessation and prevention of tobacco use, and the remainder shall be deposited into the Virginia Health Care Fund. Under current law, all such revenue is deposited into the Virginia Health Care Fund.

Cigarettes and other tobacco products; increases state tax rate.

Del. Patrick Hope [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-17	House	Left in Finance
2016-01-20	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2016-01-19	House	Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1
2016-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2016-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100752D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	1001	(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?161+sum+HB830
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB830+hil