Senate Bill S2687

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Increases from $4.35 to $6.00, the state tax on a pack of cigarettes, and provides that such increase shall be used for tobacco use prevention and control

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S2687 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§471, 471-a & 482, Tax L; add §86, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2665
2011-2012: S2981
2013-2014: S3193
2017-2018: S2866

2015-S2687 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases from $4.35 to $6.00, the state tax on a pack of cigarettes, and provides that such increase shall be used for tobacco use prevention and control programs; establishes the tobacco use prevention and control program fund.

2015-S2687 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2687 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2687

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to increasing the  tax  imposed
  upon  the  sale  or  use of cigarettes; and to amend the state finance
  law, in relation to the tobacco use  prevention  and  control  program
  fund

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 471 of the tax law, as amended  by
section  1  of  part D of chapter 134 of the laws of 2010, is amended to
read as follows:
  1. There is hereby imposed and shall be paid a tax on  all  cigarettes
possessed  in the state by any person for sale, except that no tax shall
be imposed on cigarettes sold under such circumstances that  this  state
is  without power to impose such tax, including sales to qualified Indi-
ans for their own use and consumption on their nations' or tribes' qual-
ified reservation, or sold to the United States  or  sold  to  or  by  a
voluntary  unincorporated organization of the armed forces of the United
States operating a place for the sale of goods pursuant  to  regulations
promulgated by the appropriate executive agency of the United States, to
the extent provided in such regulations and policy statements of such an
agency  applicable  to  such  sales.  The tax imposed by this section is
imposed on all cigarettes sold on an Indian reservation  to  non-members
of  the  Indian  nation or tribe and to non-Indians and evidence of such
tax shall be by means of an affixed cigarette tax stamp. Indian  nations
or  tribes  may  elect to participate in the Indian tax exemption coupon
system established in section four hundred seventy-one-e of this article
which provides a mechanism for the collection of the tax imposed by this
section on cigarette sales on qualified reservations to such non-members
and non-Indians and for the delivery of quantities of  tax-exempt  ciga-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06957-01-5
              

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