Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-466-R1

Redraft EHS 466

Reducing youth consumption of flavored cigars

Messrs. Lewis, Cyr, Keenan and McGee, Ms. O'Connor Ives and Mr. Brownsberger moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting, after section x, the following new section:-

“SECTION X. Subsection (b) of section 7B of said chapter 64C, as appearing in section 47 of chapter 46 of the acts of 2013, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

In addition to the excise imposed by the preceding paragraph, an excise shall be imposed on fruit-flavored or other nontobacco-flavored cigars and smoking tobacco held in the commonwealth at the rate of 170 per cent of the wholesale price of such products. This excise shall be imposed on cigar distributors at the time the fruit-flavored or other nontobacco-flavored cigars or smoking tobacco are manufactured, purchased, imported, received or acquired in the commonwealth. The excise shall not be imposed on any such cigars or smoking tobacco that: (i) are exported from the commonwealth; or (ii) are not subject to taxation by the commonwealth pursuant to any federal law.”; and by inserting after section x the following section:-

“SECTION  Y. The comptroller shall transfer the revenues received under the second paragraph of section 7B of chapter 64C of the General Laws during fiscal year 2018, in an amount not less than $4,000,000, to item 4590-0300 for smoking prevention and cessation programs.”