2025-2026 Regular Session

HB83

Revenue and taxation; increase tax rate on each pack of cigarettes

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to taxes on tobacco and vaping products, so as to increase the rate of the tax on each pack of cigarettes; to provide that the proceeds derived from such increase are intended to be appropriated for healthcare purposes; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means
Last status date: January 27, 2025
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Ways and Means
Author: Michelle Au
Co-sponsors: Ron Stephens Lee Hawkins Gerald Greene Debbie Buckner

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Committee referrals

January 17, 2025 · House

Ways and Means

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

January 27, 2025
House House Second Readers
January 17, 2025
House House First Readers
January 16, 2025
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1925821
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB83.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00