BILL REQ. #:  H-1756.1 

Read first time 02/16/2005.   Referred to Committee on Finance.

     AN ACT Relating to cigarette taxes; adding a new section to chapter 82.24 RCW; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 82.24 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) There is hereby levied and there shall be collected as provided by this chapter, an additional tax upon the sale, use, consumption, handling, possession, or distribution of cigarettes in an amount equal to the rate of fifty-three and seventy-five one-hundredths mills per cigarette.
     (2) The money collected under this section during any month shall be deposited by the twenty-fifth day of the following month as follows:
     (a) 83.26 percent into the health services account created in RCW 43.72.900; and
     (b) The remainder into the youth tobacco prevention account created in RCW 70.155.120.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act takes effect August 1, 2005.