SB 2310 - Food and Tobacco Taxes - Mississippi Key Vote
Terry Burton voted Yea (Override of Veto) on this Legislation.
Timeline
- Senate Veto Override Failed
- March 22, 2006
- House Bill Passed
- Jan. 11, 2006
- Senate Bill Passed
- Jan. 6, 2006
- Introduced
- Jan. 5, 2006
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Stage Details
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to override a veto of a bill that raises the tax on cigarettes from $0.18/pack to $0.75/pack, effective upon passage, and from $0.75/pack to $1.00/pack, effective July 1, 2007. The bill also levies a 15 percent excise tax on snuff and other tobacco products, excluding cigarettes. The bill creates the Municipal Tobacco Tax Diversion Fund and provides that a portion of revenue generated from cigarette tax revenue be distributed to the Municipal Tobacco Tax Diversion Fund, the Education Enhancement Fund, and the School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund. Additionally, the bill decreases, as of July 1, 2006, the tax on non-prepared food for human consumption to 4.5 percent and to gradually phase out the tax by July 1, 2014.
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that raises the tax on cigarettes from $0.18/pack to $0.75/pack, effective upon passage, and from $0.75/pack to $1.00/pack, effective July 1, 2007. The bill also levies a 15 percent excise tax on snuff and other tobacco products, excluding cigarettes. The bill creates the Municipal Tobacco Tax Diversion Fund and provides that a portion of revenue generated from cigarette tax revenue be distributed to the Municipal Tobacco Tax Diversion Fund, the Education Enhancement Fund, and the School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund. Additionally, the bill decreases, as of July 1, 2006, the tax on non-prepared food for human consumption to 4.5 percent and to gradually phase out the tax by July 1, 2014.
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that raises the tax on cigarettes from $0.18/pack to $0.75/pack, effective upon passage, and from $0.75/pack to $1.00/pack, effective July 1, 2007. The bill also levies a 15 percent excise tax on snuff and other tobacco products, excluding cigarettes. The bill creates the Municipal Tobacco Tax Diversion Fund and provides that a portion of revenue generated from cigarette tax revenue be distributed to the Municipal Tobacco Tax Diversion Fund, the Education Enhancement Fund, and the School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund. Additionally, the bill decreases, as of July 1, 2006, the tax on non-prepared food for human consumption to 4.5 percent and to gradually phase out the tax by July 1, 2014.
Title: Food and Tobacco Taxes
- Sidney M. 'Sid' Albritton (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Nickey R. Browning (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kelvin E. Butler (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Deborah Jeanne Dawkins (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Hillman Terome Frazier (MS - D)
- Carl J. 'Jack' Gordon Jr. (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Alice Varnado Harden (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary Jackson (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert L. 'Bobby' Jackson (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Sampson Jackson II (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- David Lee Jordan (MS - D)
- Thomas E. 'Tom' King Jr. (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick Alan Nunnelee (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Irvin L. 'Lynn' Posey (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas E. 'Tommy' Robertson (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph C. Thomas Sr. (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- James 'Shannon' Walley (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Johnnie E. Walls Jr. (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gloria Chisholm Williamson (MS - D) (Out Of Office)