MD HB71 | 2016 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-17 - Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Requiring the Governor to include for fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter an additional $11,000,000 in annual appropriations for tobacco use prevention and cessation programs; altering the tobacco tax rates on cigarettes and other tobacco products; establishing the tobacco tax rates on cigarillos; clarifying that all cigarettes and other tobacco products used, possessed, or held in the State on or after July 1, 2016, are subject to the full tax enacted under the Act; etc.

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Title

Tobacco Taxes - Healthy Maryland Initiative

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-02-17HouseHearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
2016-01-14HouseFirst Reading Ways and Means and Economic Matters

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