2025-2026 Regular Session

HB96

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

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 set the rate of the tax on each pack of cigarettes to the national average tax on cigarettes, as determined by the commissioner, in future tax years; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways and Means
Last status date: January 28, 2025
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Ways and Means
Author: Samuel Park
Co-sponsors: Carolyn Hugley Michelle Au Floyd Griffin Jasmine Clark Long Tran

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Committee referrals

January 27, 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 28, 2025
House House Second Readers
January 27, 2025
House House First Readers
January 17, 2025
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1929258
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB96.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00