Key Votes
HB 889 - Tobacco Tax Increase - Key Vote
Louisiana Key Votes
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Legislation - Bill Failed (House) (45-55) - June 15, 2009 (Key vote)
Title: Tobacco Tax Increase
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that raises taxes on the sale, use, consumption, handling and distribution of cigarettes, cigars, smoking and smokeless tobacco products thereby used to establish the Louisiana Healthier Families Fund.
Highlights:
-Places/Increases taxes upon the sale, use, consumption, handling, and distribution of all cigars (twelve percent of the invoice price for cigars less than one hundred twenty dollars per thousand and thirty percent for cigars more than one hundred twenty dollars per thousand), cigarettes (two and one half cents per cigarette in addition to preexisting taxes), smoking tobacco (forty-nine and one half percent of the invoice price) and smokeless tobacco (thirty percent of the invoice price) (Sec. 1).
-Establishes the Louisiana Healthier Families Fund and directs the state treasurer to annually deposit revenues attained through abovementioned tax increases and outlines how the Fund shall use collected monies (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 6, 2009
Title: Tobacco Tax Increase
Sponsors
- Karen Carter Peterson (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Regina Ashford Barrow (LA - D)
- Sharon Weston Broome (LA - D)
- Roy Allen Burrell (LA - D)
- Thomas G. Carmody Jr. (LA - R)
- Joel T. Chaisson II (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick Connick (LA - R)
- Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb (LA - D)
- Noble E. Ellington (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Cheryl Artise Gray Evans (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joe Harrison (LA - R)
- Avon R. Honey (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Lydia Patrice Jackson (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Girod H. Jackson III (LA - D)
- Kenneth Eric LaFleur (LA - D)
- Walt Leger III (LA - D)
- Jean-Paul J. 'J.P.' Morrell (LA - D)
- Harold L. Ritchie (LA - D)
- Charmaine L. Marchand Stiaes (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick C. Williams (LA - D)
