HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2157        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2689

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

_______________

In the Year Two Thousand Nine

_______________

An Act relative to the cigarette excise tax stamping allowance..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 30 of chapter 64C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended in lines 36-38 by striking out the words “one dollar and eighty-five cents for each six hundred cigarette excise adhesive stamps purchased, and a proportionate amount for any fraction thereof” and inserting in place thereof the following:- “one percent of the cost of said excise stamp”.

 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.