Key Votes
SB 3084 - Food and Tobacco Taxes - Key Vote
Mississippi Key Votes
Stages
- March 29, 2006 Senate Veto Override Failed
- March 6, 2006 House Conference Report Adopted
- March 3, 2006 Senate Conference Report Adopted
- March 2, 2006 Senate Conference Report Rejected
- Feb. 24, 2006 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 21, 2006 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 20, 2006 Introduced
Family
- SB 3084 - Food and Tobacco Taxes
- HB 2279 - 2010-2011 Budget
- HB 1693 - Prohibiting Legislative Facilities Committee From Adopting Additional Weapons Regulations
- E 1153 - 2010-2011 Executive Budget Proposals
- SB 492 - 2009-2011 Biennium Budget Amendments
- HB 239 -
- SB 178 - Closed-Session School Superintendent Evaluations
- HB 2307 - Federal Arms Regulation Exemption
- SB 489 - Gambling Expansion
- SB 321 - Prohibiting Hand-Held Cell Phone Use While Driving
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Veto Override Failed (Senate) - March 29, 2006
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (House) (79-41) - March 6, 2006 (Key vote)
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Vote to adopt a conference report that raises the excise tax on tobacco to $.04/cigarette until July 1, 2006, and to $.05/cigarette thereafter. The conference report allocates $1.31 million to the Education Enhancement Fund and $326,000 to the School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund from revenue generated by the cigarette taxes. The report also lowers dealers discounts on stamps from 8 percent to 4 percent prior to July 1, 2006, and from 4 percent to 1 percent thereafter and reduces the sales tax on retail foods for human consumption to 3.5 percent. Additionally, the report provides for a greater percentage of the sales tax on retail foods to be distributed to municipalities beginning on or before September 15, 2006, and establishes new rules concerning tobacco companies that did not participate in the tobacco settlement.
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (Senate) (29-19) - March 3, 2006 (Key vote)
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Vote to adopt a conference report that raises the excise tax on tobacco to $.04/cigarette until July 1, 2006, and to $.05/cigarette thereafter. The conference report allocates $1.31 million to the Education Enhancement Fund and $326,000 to the School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund from revenue generated by the cigarette taxes. The report also lowers dealers discounts on stamps from 8 percent to 4 percent prior to July 1, 2006, and from 4 percent to 1 percent thereafter and reduces the sales tax on retail foods for human consumption to 3.5 percent. Additionally, the report provides for a greater percentage of the sales tax on retail foods to be distributed to municipalities beginning on or before September 15, 2006, and establishes new rules concerning tobacco companies that did not participate in the tobacco settlement.
Legislation - Conference Report Rejected (Senate) (28-19) - March 2, 2006
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (87-34) - Feb. 24, 2006 (Key vote)
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Vote to pass a bill that raises the tax on tobacco to $.05/cigarette, imposes a tax on snuff, cigars, and other tobacco products, excluding cigarettes, at 15 percent of the manufacturers list price and requires that a portion of the revenue from increased tobacco taxes be deposited monthly into the Education Enhancement Fund and the School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund. The bill also lowers the tax on retail sales of food to 3.5 percent and provides that 18.5 percent of taxes collected through the increased tobacco taxes and 37 percent of taxes collected through the tax on retail food sales within a municipality be distributed back to the municipality monthly.
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (30-17) - Feb. 21, 2006 (Key vote)
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Vote to pass a bill that raises the excise tax on tobacco from $.009/cigarette to $.04/cigarette; imposes a tax on snuff, cigars, and other tobacco products, except cigarettes, at 15 percent of the manufacturers list price; creates the Municipal Sales Tax Diversion Fund and requires that money from the fund be distributed monthly to municipalities; requires that a portion of the revenue from the increased tobacco tax be deposited in the Municipal Sales Tax Diversion Fund, the Education Enhancement Fund, and the School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund; and lowers the sales tax on retail sales of food to 3.5 percent.
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Feb. 20, 2006
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Sponsors
- Travis Lane Little (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Carl J. 'Jack' Gordon Jr. (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- David Lee Jordan (MS - D)
- Thomas E. 'Tom' King Jr. (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- H. Nolan Mettetal (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas E. 'Tommy' Robertson (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Gray Tollison (MS - R)
