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LA HB398
Bill
Status
4/3/2025
Primary Sponsor
Ken Brass
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AI Summary
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Increases the excise tax on smokeless tobacco from 20% to 33% of the invoice price, effective July 1, 2025
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Creates the Youth Cessation and Prevention Fund as a special treasury fund, receiving 20% of smokeless tobacco tax revenue annually for evidence-based tobacco, nicotine, and e-cigarette prevention and cessation programs
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Allocates fund appropriations to: Louisiana Cancer Research Center (40%), Louisiana Department of Health's Well-Ahead Louisiana Program (40%), LSU Health Sciences Center Cancer Center in Shreveport (10%), and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in Gonzales (10%)
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Requires all wholesale and retail dealers to file inventory reports of smokeless tobacco products on hand before July 1, 2025 with the Department of Revenue by August 1, 2025
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Prohibits fund appropriations from displacing or supplanting existing state general fund appropriations to recipient organizations
Legislative Description
Increases the tax levied on smokeless tobacco and dedicates a portion of avails of the tax into the Youth Cessation and Prevention Fund (OR +$8,900,000 GF RV See Note)
TAX/TOBACCO TAX
Last Action
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
4/14/2025