West Virginia Senate Bill 671 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-06 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill generally relates to tobacco products. The bill defines terms. The bill increases the tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes. The bill allocates revenue to the West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention. The bill repeals the vape tax. The bill repeals the tax to be levied by municipalities or other governmental subdivisions. The bill repeals the tax for person affixing stamps and paying of tax. The bill levies the user fee on cigarettes to be directed to support EMS. Finally, the bill creates a special revenue fund to receive funds from the created user fee.

Increasing tax on certain tobacco products

Sen. Tom Takubo [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-06	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2024-02-06	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2024-02-06	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2024-02-06	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
11	17	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
11	17	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
11	17	4	Amended Code	Citation Text
11	17	4a	Repealed Code	Citation Text
11	17	4b	Repealed Code	Citation Text
11	17	7	Amended Code	Citation Text
11	17	9	Repealed Code	Citation Text
16	4C	26	New Code	See Bill Text
16	4C	27	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=671&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb671%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=671
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=893581562