Bill Text: HI SB2422 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Tobacco Products; Tax
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Chang, Herkes, Nakashima, Pine, Tokioka excused (5). [SB2422 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2422-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2552
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2422
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2422, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to impose an excise tax on tobacco products, other than large cigars, in order to decrease the prevalence of tobacco consumption.
Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii and the Papa Ola Lokahi-Native Hawaiian Health Board. Written comments were submitted by the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and the American Heart Association.
Your Committee finds that tobacco use continues to be a problem in the State. Tobacco products are addictive and inherently dangerous to health, and while cigarette usage among Hawaii's youth has decreased, smokeless tobacco use has not.
Your Committee believes that increasing the State excise tax on tobacco products will facilitate a reduction in tobacco use, especially among adolescents and young adults.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2422, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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