Assembly Actions -
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Jan 06, 2016 |
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Jan 15, 2015 |
referred to mental health |
Assembly Bill A2117
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CAHILL
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-A2117 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A2117 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2117 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 15, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the form of tax stamps on cigarettes THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 472 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 629 of the laws of 1996 and as further amended by section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 1. The commissioner shall [prescribe,] prepare and furnish stamps of such denominations and quantities as may be necessary for the payment of the tax on cigarettes imposed by this article, and may from time to time and as often as he deems advisable provide for the issuance and exclu- sive use of stamps of a new design and forbid the use of stamps of any other design, in the manner and with the effect provided in section two hundred seventy-four of this chapter. SUCH STAMPS SHALL MEASURE TWO INCHES BY TWO INCHES AND BE AFFIXED TO THE PACKAGE OVERWRAP ON BOTH SIDES OF A PACKAGE OF TWENTY CIGARETTES. EACH STAMP SHALL BEAR A COLOR GRAPHIC DEPICTING AN ADVERSE EFFECT OF CIGARETTE USE AND INCLUDE A TOLL FREE TELEPHONE NUMBER WHICH CALLERS MAY ACCESS FOR INFORMATION ON SMOK- ING CESSATION. The commissioner shall make provisions for the sale of such stamps at such places and at such times as he may deem necessary and may license agents for such purpose. The commissioner may license dealers in cigarettes, who maintain separate warehousing facilities for the purpose of receiving and distributing cigarettes and conducting their business, who have received commitments from at least two ciga- rette manufacturers whose aggregate market share is at least forty percent of the New York state cigarette market, and importers, exporters and manufacturers of cigarettes, and other persons within or without the state as agents to buy or affix stamps to be used in paying the tax herein imposed, but an agent shall at all times have the right to EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06308-01-5
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