| Measure Title: | RELATING TO HEALTH RESEARCH AND SMOKING. |
| Report Title: | Health Research; Cigarette Tax Increase |
| Description: | Increases tax per cigarette to 9 cents after 1/1/2007, 11 cents after 1/1/2008, and 13 cents after 1/1/2009. Earmarks 50% of tax to Cancer Research Center, 25% to DOH health promotion and disease prevention programs, and 25% to the Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund. |
| Package: | None |
| Companion: | |
| Introducer(s): | BAKER, FUKUNAGA, CHUN OAKLAND, INOUYE, KANNO, HOOSER, TSUTSUI, Nishihara, Kokubun, Menor, Ihara, Hanabusa, English, Kim, Taniguchi, Bunda, Sakamoto, Hee |
| Current Referral: | HTH, WAM |
| Date | Status Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 1/25/2006 | S | Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| 1/27/2006 | S | Referred to HTH, WAM. |
$ = Appropriation measure
ConAm = Constitutional Amendment