Attorney General No.
09-0065
Secretary of State No.
1416
Description
Imposes additional five cent tax on each cigarette distributed ($1.00 per pack), and an equivalent tax increase on other tobacco products, to fund cancer research and other specified purposes. Requires tax revenues be deposited into a special fund to finance research and research facilities focused on detecting, preventing, treating, and curing cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other tobacco-related diseases, and to finance prevention programs. Creates nine-member committee charged with administering the fund. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Increase in new cigarette tax revenues of about $850 million annually by 2011-12, declining slightly annually thereafter, for various health research and tobacco-related programs. Increase of about $45 million annually to existing health, natural resources, and research programs funded by existing tobacco taxes, but a decrease of about $45 million annually in tobacco taxes for early childhood programs. Increase in state and local sales taxes of about $32 million annually.
Proponents
N. Eugene Hill
Date
12-18-2009
Document Type
Initiative
Qualified
Failed to Qualify
Recommended Citation
IMPOSES ADDITIONAL TAX ON CIGARETTES FOR CANCER RESEARCH. INITIATIVE STATUTE. California Initiative 1416 (2009).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_inits/1611