Bill No.: SF0083 Drafter: JWL
LSO No.: 12LSO-0252 Effective Date: July 1, 2012
Enrolled Act No.: SEA0036
Chapter No.: CH0065
Prime Sponsor: Senator Coe
Catch Title: Cigarette manufacturing.
Subject: Clarifies definition of cigarette and cigarette manufacturing
Summary/Major Elements:
· Cigarette manufacturers are required under state law to file annual reports for purposes of the tobacco settlement fund, to use low ignition propensity cigarette paper and to be licensed by the Department of Revenue and comply with taxation provisions.
· This act clarifies that for all of the above purposes, a wholesaler or retailer who maintains at a retail or wholesale establishment a machine which enables a customer to process tobacco products into a roll or tube is a "tobacco manufacturer" and the resulting product is a "cigarette."