SB948
Tobacco Board; composition, increases excise tax on bright flue-cured & type 21 dark-fired tobacco.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Tobacco Board; composition; assessment.
Alters the member nomination process, tax rate, and other functions of the Tobacco Board (the Board). The bill removes the 90-day deadline for submission of industry nominees for a seat on the Board, as well as the requirement that there be two or more nominations for each seat. The bill ... (More) removes from the Board the power to appoint a secretary and other employees. Finally, the bill raises the excise tax on tobacco from 20 cents to 40 cents per 100 pounds of tobacco harvested and renames it an assessment; authorizes the Board, at its discretion, to waive interest on the assessment when it is paid late or is left unpaid; and provides criteria for such waiver. This bill is identical to HB 2254. (Less)-
Bill History
- 12/31/2016 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100711D
- 12/31/2016 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/11/2017 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB948)
- 01/12/2017 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (10-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 01/12/2017 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104043D-S1
- 01/16/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/2017 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/17/2017 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/17/2017 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17104043D-S1
- 01/17/2017 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB948S1
- 01/18/2017 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N)
- 01/25/2017 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB948S1)
- 01/30/2017 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/30/2017 - House: Read first time
- 01/30/2017 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/08/2017 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2017 - House: Read second time
- 02/10/2017 - House: Read third time
- 02/10/2017 - House: Passed House (92-Y 3-N)
- 02/10/2017 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (92-Y 3-N)
- 02/13/2017 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/13/2017 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB948ER)
- 02/13/2017 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB948ER)
- 02/13/2017 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/13/2017 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/14/2017 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
- 02/14/2017 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
- 02/20/2017 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 66 (effective 7/1/17)
- 02/20/2017 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0066)
