Bill Text: HI SB1307 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health; Tobacco Products Tax

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-14 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [SB1307 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1307-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 306

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1307

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1307 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the tax on tobacco products, other than large cigars, to an unspecified rate.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Glory Investments and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that a variety of tobacco products are currently taxed at rates lower than cigarettes, which may create a substitution effect.  This measure amends the tax on tobacco products, other than large cigars, sold by a wholesaler or dealer beginning on September 30, 2013.  Your Committee notes that as this measure moves forward, the specific amount of the tax will need to be determined.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1307 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair