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Senate Bill No. 586

(By Senators Prezioso, Foster and Stollings)

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[Introduced February 14, 2012; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §11-17-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating generally to raising the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products; and establishing a special revenue account.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That §11-17-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 17. CIGARETTE TAX ACT.

§11-17-3. Levy of tax; ratio; dedication of proceeds.

    (a) Tax on cigarettes. -- For the purpose of providing revenue for the General Revenue Fund of the state, An excise tax is hereby levied and imposed on sales of cigarettes at the rate of fifty-five cents $1.55 on each twenty cigarettes or in like ratio on any part thereof. Only one sale of the same article shall be used in computing the amount of tax due under this subsection.

    (b) Tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes. -- Effective the first day of January, two thousand two, An excise tax is hereby levied and imposed on the sale or use of, other than cigarettes, tobacco products at a rate equal to seven fifty percent of the wholesale price of each article or item of tobacco product other than cigarettes sold by the wholesaler or subjobber dealer, whether or not sold at wholesale, or if not sold, then at the same rate upon the use by the wholesaler or dealer. Only one sale of the same article shall be used in computing the amount of tax due under this subsection. Revenues received from this tax shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.

    (c) Effective date. -- The changes set forth herein to this section and section four of this article shall become effective the first day of May two thousand three July 1, 2012.

    (d) One half of all moneys collected pursuant to this section, up to an annual amount of $60 million, shall be deposited in a special account in the State Treasury to be known as the "West Virginia Healthy Future Fund". Expenditures from the fund shall be made annually to the Department of Health and Human Resources in the amount of $27 million for implementation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and cessation programming in compliance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Best Practices for Tobacco Control and Prevention. Any additional moneys in the fund are to be expended by annual appropriation by the Legislature: Provided, That these funds are solely used to provide funding for public health, substance abuse programs or healthcare. The remaining one half of the collection not placed in this special account shall be deposited in the General Revenue Fund.

 

    NOTE: The purpose of the bill is to raise the tobacco tax by $1 and dedicate half the proceeds to certain health related issues and the other half to the General Revenue Fund.


    Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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