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SF 497Died when the session ended · March 6, 2019

Relating to cigarettes, tobacco products, and vapor products, including taxation of such products

Topics:Taxes

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedMarch 6, 2019
  2. Done: SubcommitteeMarch 11, 2019
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to the taxes on cigarettes, tobacco products, and vapor products.86 per pack of cigarettes. The bill increases the tax on cigarettes assembled using loose tobacco products that are inserted into a vending machine from which assembled cigarettes are dispensed from three and six-hundredths cents to four and four-tenths cents, which is equivalent, based on the weight of tobacco used for each cigarette, to the tax on packaged cigarettes. The bill increases the tax on tobacco products from percent of the wholesale sales price to percent of the wholesale sales price.

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The bill amends the cap on the tax for cigars from cents per cigar to $1 per cigar. The bill imposes a tax on vapor products in the state at the rate of $5 per cartridge or other container of a solution or substance, which may or may not contain nicotine, that is intended to be used with or in a vapor product. The tax is imposed at the point of retail sale to cartridges or other containers in the state so that the ultimate consumer bears the burden of the tax. The bill make other conforming changes.

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Senate subcommittee

Named March 11, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§453A.47D

Amends§331.303§331.653§331.756§453A.15§453A.24§453A.32§453A.33§453A.35§453A.35A§453A.39§453A.42§453A.43§453A.45§453A.47A§453A.48§453A.51§453A.6

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Lobbying

5 for · 4 against · 2 undecided · Who →

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