|
State
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Current/Proposed
Tax
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Bill
Numbers
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Status
|
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Alabama
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$.26-$.75//pack
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H. 119
|
1/12 Appropriations Committee
4/22 Legislature adjourned 2010
session; bill did not move
|
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Alaska
|
Increases Moist Snuff to $1.88 x oz.
Spitless 100% wholesale price
OTP: 75% wholesale price
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H. 188
|
3/24 Passed House and Social Services
Committee
|
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Colorado
|
Allows local gov’t to tax cigarettes
without losing state tax revenues
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H. 1121
|
2/2 Postponed Indefinitely
|
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Connecticut
|
Tax cigars, smoking tobacco, pipe
tobacco same as cigarettes
|
S. 437
|
4/1 Passed Finance Committee
4/22 Passed Senate
Adjourned without further action
|
|
$3.00-$3.20 pack
|
Governor’s proposal
|
|
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Florida
|
Imposes fee of $.02/cigarette on
NPM’s
|
S.2344
|
3/11 Introduced
Adjourned without action
|
|
Georgia
|
$.37-$1.37; loose or smokeless tobacco
from 10% to 25%
|
H. 39 (carryover from 2009 session)
|
No action to date
3/25 Billed failed to move prior to
cross-over date
4/29 Legislature adjourned; 2010
regular session ended
|
|
|
Proposes constitutional amendment to
raise the cigarette tax by $1.00
|
HR. 1652
|
3/25 Billed failed to move prior to
cross-over date
4/29 Legislature adjourned; 2010
regular session ended
|
|
|
$.37-$1.00
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H. 1278
|
3/25 Billed failed to move prior to
cross-over date
4/29 Legislature adjourned; 2010
regular session ended
|
|
Hawaii
|
Adds $.20/pack to previous increase
scheduled 2010/2011
|
HB 1985
|
4/25
Signed by Governor
|
|
Illinois
|
$.98-$1.98
|
S. 44
|
1/13 Referred to Rules Comm.
|
|
Kansas
|
$.79-$1.34/pack
OTP: 10%-40%
|
H. 2643/
SB 516
|
4/22 Ways and Means Comm
|
|
Would change the method used to calculate the excise tax on
little cigars from 10% of the wholesale sales price to 79 cents per
pack
|
H. 2466
|
1/19 Taxation Comm
|
|
Would change the method used to calculate the excise tax on
moist snuff from 10% of the wholesale sales price to 20 cents per ounce
|
H. 2462
|
1/19 Taxation Comm
|
|
Kentucky
|
Would modify the method used to calculate the excise tax on
moist snuff from 19 cents per unit to 12.1%. Would decrease the excise
tax on other tobacco products by 2.9% (from 15% to 12.1%)
|
H. 296
|
1/20 Appropriations & Revenue
Committee
Died in Comm.
|
|
Louisiana
|
Authorizes certain subdivisions to levy excise tax up to $.50. Requires
voter approval
|
H. 1280
|
5/3 On House Ways & Means Comm.
agenda—but not considered
|
|
Maryland
|
$2.00/pack to $2.32/pack
|
H. 244
|
Adjourned with no action
|
|
Defines cigarette to include small cigars
|
S.703/H.957
|
3/3 Hearing Scheduled
Adjourned with no action
|
|
Mississippi
|
$.68-$1.36/pack OTP 15%-16%
|
S. 2276
|
W&M Committee
|
|
$.68-$1.28/pack
|
H. 593
|
W&M Committee
|
|
OTP 15%-22.5%
|
H. 595
|
W&M Committee
|
|
Missouri
|
$.17-$.33/pack
|
H. 1891
|
2/1 Introduced
|
|
New
Hampshire
|
Changes method of taxing cigars to $.26
unit and moist snuff to $1.10 oz.
Both are currently 48.59% of WP.
|
S. 498
|
1-27 W&M Committee
|
|
$1.78-$1.98/pack
OTP:
48.59%-60%
|
Governor’s request
|
Pending in Ways and Means Committee
SET defeated in House Finance Committee
OTP approved.
|
|
New
Jersey
|
Reduce excise tax on a pack of
cigarettes by $.30;
|
A. 2590
|
Introduced
|
|
New
Mexico
|
$.91-$1.91/pack OTP 25%-40%
|
H.35
|
Defeated in committee
|
|
|
$.91-$1.91/pack OTP 25%-40%
|
S.30
|
1/25 Passed Committee on Committees
2/13 Passed Finance Comm.
2/14 Passed Senate
2/18 Defeated in House Tax Comm.
|
|
$.91-$1.66/pack
|
SB4 Special Session
|
3/3 Passed
To Governor
Signed by Gov.
Vetoed 4 yr sunset provision
|
|
New
York
|
$2.75-$3.75/pack
|
A. 9710/S.6610
|
Ways and Means/ Finance
|
|
The tobacco products tax on chewing tobacco, cigars,
pipe tobacco and rolling tobacco would be increased from 46
percent of wholesale price to 90 percent of the wholesale
price. The tax on snuff would be raised from $0.90 per ounce
to $2.00 per ounce. Little cigars would be taxed consistent with the proposed
cigarette excise tax of $3.75 per pack, rather than the
current rate of 46 percent of wholesale price.
|
|
House included increase in its Budget
Resolution.
Senate specifically rejected increase.
|
|
Oregon
|
Lifts ban against local gov’t taxing
cigarettes and tobacco
|
S. 1042a
|
2/5 Hearing
2/25 Special Session adjourned w/out
further action.
|
|
redefines moist snuff to include
snus, pouches, lozenges, strips, orbs and any product
with finely cut, ground or powdered tobacco. It
also redefines smokeless tobacco products and expands the current moist snuff rate
($1.78/oz with a minimum of $2.14/container) to include smokeless tobacco products.
|
H. 3682a
|
2/10 Passed House
2/25 Special Session adjourned w/out
further action.
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
OTP: 30% of purchase price
|
HB 2435
|
4/20 Introduced
5/4 Passed House Appropriations
Committee
|
|
OTP: 59.2% of wholesale price
|
SB 1236
|
4/20 Introduced
|
|
OTP 60% purchase price
|
HB 2466
|
4/29 Introduced
|
|
Rhode
Island
|
Clarifies that little cigars are not
cigarettes for tax purposes
|
H. 1228
|
Finance Committee
|
|
South
Carolina
|
$.07-$.57/pack
|
H. 3486
|
Passed Senate
Passed House
Vetoed by Gov.
House overrode veto
|
|
Tennessee
|
Would impose a fee of 45 cents per pack on all cigarettes
of a Non-Participating Manufacturer.
|
S. 3133
|
1/27 Finance/Ways & Means Committee
|
|
Utah
|
$.69.5-$1.70/pack OTP 35%-66%
|
H. 196
|
1/25 Rules Committee
2/12 Passed Committee
3/7 To Governor
Signed by Governor
|
|
Vermont
|
Proposes to amend the tobacco products tax
so that snuff and new smokeless tobacco will be taxed at the
same rate as other tobacco products.
|
H. 636
|
1/29 Ways and Means
|
|
Virginia
|
Changes tax on moist snuff from 10% MSP
to $.18 oz. and loose leaf $.21/single unit; $.40/ half-pound unit and
$.70/pound unit. All
other OTP taxes remain at 10% of the manufacturer’s sales
price.
|
H.626
|
1/13
2/4 Passed House 96 to 3
2/8 Referred to Senate Finance
Committee
3/3 Passed Senate with substitute;
House approved Senate substitute
4/2 Signed by Governor; effective
1/1/11
|
|
Would impose a fee of 45 cents per pack on cigarettes sold in
the Commonwealth by an NPM
|
S.
701
|
1/22 Presented and referred to the
Senate Finance Committee
2/11 voted down 14 to 0 in committee.
|
|
Allows all counties to pass a cigarette
tax up to $.05/pack
|
H.889
|
1/13
2/16
left in Finance Committee
|
|
Adds James City and Spotsylvania to
list of counties that may tax cigarettes; allowed rate may
not exceed the state cigarette tax.
|
S.578
|
1/19 Introduced
1/29 Passed Senate 26 to 14
3/1 Tabled in Finance Committee
|
|
Changes the method of taxation on
moist snuff to $.18/oz and on loose leaf tobacco $.21/single
unit; $.40/ half-pound unit and $.70/pound unit.
All other OTP taxes remain at 10% of the
manufacturer’s sales price.
|
S. 478
|
2/1 Finance Committee
2/15 Passed Senate 38 to 2
3/3 Passed House
3/11 Enrolled
4/2 Signed by Governor
|
|
Washington
|
$2.025-$3.025/pack.
Moist snuff the greater of $2.526 or 83.5% of the
cigarette tax per single unit (1.2 oz); tax little cigars
the same as cigarettes; tax other cigars at 95% w/ $.65 cap
(from 75%) of the taxable sales price and all other OTP at
95%
|
H. 2493
|
3/15 Reintroduced in special session
3/19 Passed House
3/20 Placed on Senate calendar for 2nd
reading
4/23 Signed by Governor
|
|
Changes tax on moist snuff from 75% of
sales price to $2.025/unit
|
H. 2382
|
1/11
3/15 Reintroduced in special session
4/12 Bill failed to move as legislature
adjourned sine die
|
|
|
Increases cigarette tax from $2.025 to
$3.025 per pack; imposes an equity fee on nonparticipating
manufacturers of $.42 per pack; imposes an additional tax on
cigarettes sold on “buy-one-get-one free” basis or
similar offers.
|
S. 6874
|
3/7 Passed Senate
3/8 First reading in House; referred to
Rules Committee
3/15 Reintroduced in special session.
4/12 Bill failed to move as legislature
adjourned sine die
|
|
West
Virginia
|
$.55-$1.20/pack OTP 7%-14%
|
H. 2746
|
1/13 Health Committee
Legislature Adjourned w/out action
|
|
$.55-$1.35/pack OTP 7%-14%
|
H. 2681
|
1/13 Health Committee
Legislature Adjourned w/out action
|
|
|
Resolution asking Joint Comm on Gov’t
and Finance to study how an increase in tobacco taxes can
address smoking cessation.
|
SCR 39
|
|
|
State
|
Proposed
Restriction
|
Bill
Numbers
|
Status
|
|
Alaska
|
Expands current law to include bars
|
H. 304
|
1/19 Judiciary Committee
|
|
Alabama
|
Expands current law to include
restaurants
|
SB541
/ HB720
|
4/1 To Third Reading
4/6 Passed Senate
4/14 Approved by House Government
Operations Cmte
|
|
Georgia
|
Extend current ban to bars and
restaurants
|
HB 1420
|
3/18 Introduced
3/22 To 2nd reading
3/25 Bill failed to meet cross-over
deadline
4/29 Legislature adjourned; 2010
regular session ended
|
|
Indiana
|
State-wide smoking ban; exempts tobacco
stores with certain restrictions
|
S. 233
|
1/11 Commerce Comm
|
|
State-wide smoking ban; exempts tobacco
stores with certain restrictions
|
S.95
|
1/5 Commerce Comm
|
|
State-wide smoking ban; does not exempt
tobacco stores. Amended
to exempt tobacco stores.
Not originally a smoking ban
bill--amended in the House to ban smoking with no exemption
for tobacco stores
|
HB1131
SB175
|
1/7 Public Policy Comm; 1/20 Comm
hearing scheduled
1/25 Pulled from floor
2/2 Passed House 73 to 26
2/8 Referred to Senate Commerce Comm.
2/25 House amends bill with smoking ban
language.
3/1 Senate rejects House
amendments; Conference Committee Appointed.
3/5 Senate adopts conference report
without ban language.
3/13 Legislature adjourned sine die;
bill failed to pass
|
|
Kansas
|
Prohibits smoking in all public places;
allowed in bars with separate smoking areas
|
H.2642
|
2/3 Health Committee
|
|
Louisiana
|
Extends smoking ban to any bar or
restaurant that serves food when open to the public
|
SB 334
|
3/29 Introduced.
To
Health and Welfare
4/28 Reported favorably from comm.;
awaiting action on Senate floor
4/29 Ordered engrossed
5/12 Read by title; returned to Senate
calendar
|
|
Removes exemption for bars
|
SB 348
|
3/29 Introduced. To Health and Welfare
4/28 Reported favorably from comm.
4/29 Ordered Engrossed
5/12 Passed
Senate
|
|
Mississippi
|
Prohibits smoking in all enclosed
spaces including bars
|
H. 54
|
1/5 Failed
|
|
Missouri
|
State-wide smoking ban.
Exempts retail stores with annual sales 75% or
greater from tobacco products
|
H. 1766
|
1/21 Introduced
1/25 Read second time
|
|
|
State-wide smoking ban.
Exempts retail stores with annual sales 75% or
greater from tobacco products
|
S.904
|
2/11 Introduced
|
|
New
Jersey
|
Allows owners of multiple dwellings to
prohibit smoking in individual units
|
S. 446
|
1/12
|
|
Rhode
Island
|
Prohibits smoking in bars and taverns
in bldg w/ permanent residents
|
S.2204
|
Health and Human Serv. Committee
|
|
West
Virginia
|
State-wide smoking ban. Exempts retail
outlets
|
S. 360
|
|
|
State
|
Proposed
Restrictions
|
Bill
Numbers
|
Status
|
|
Louisiana
|
Increases
retail license fee from $25 to $75; wholesalers from $75 to
$1,000
|
HB
416
|
3/29 Introduced
|
|
|
Increases
retail license fee from $25 to $75; wholesalers remain at
$75
|
HB530
|
3/29 Introduced
|
|
New
Jersey
|
Extends cigarette license requirement
to all tobacco products
|
S. 392
|
1/12 Budget Committee
|
|
Maryland
|
Prohibits a person from selling,
distributing, or offering for sale a product, or part of a
product, that contains or delivers nicotine for human
consumption and that has not been approved by the FDA
|
H. 720
|
2/5 Health Committee
3/3 Hearing scheduled
Defeated in Committee
|
|
Missouri
|
Significantly increases fines on
retailers for selling or providing tobacco products to any
person under age 18
|
H.1856
|
1/28 Introduced
2/1 Read second time
|
|
New
Hampshire
|
Bans sale of e-cigarettes
|
H. 1541
|
Passed Senate
|
|
New
York
|
Reduce retail license fee to $200/per
store
|
A. 8817
|
Heard and amended in Gov. Ops Committee
|
|
Rhode
Island
|
Prohibits pharmacies from selling
tobacco products
|
H. 7012
|
1/6 Finance Committee
|
|
Prohibits promotions to induce
buying more than one pack/carton
|
H. 7700
|
3/30 Hearing in House Corporation
Committee
|
|
Tennessee
|
Prohibit sale of cigarette and cigar
rolling papers within 500 feet of schools, community
centers, churches
|
S-3682
|
03/23/2010In HOUSE Committee on
AGRICULTURE: Re-referred to General Subcommittee.
|
|
West
Virginia
|
Prohibits pharmacies from selling
tobacco products
|
S. 24
|
1/13 Health Committee
|
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