P - Present
Roll Call
OTHERS PRESENT: See Original Minutes
The meeting was called to order by Chair Dykstra.
MOTION:
TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 15, 2007
E - Excused
A - Absent
P Bradford
P Faehn
P Feinstein
P Juhnke
P Lust
P Noem
P Novstrup (Al)
P Olson (Ryan), Vice-Chair
P Peters
P Thompson
P Turbiville
P Van Etten
P Weems
P Wick
P Dykstra, Chair
Moved by: Turbiville
Second by: Van Etten
Action: Prevailed by voice vote.
SB 42: revise the discount provided to tobacco distributors purchasing tobacco
stamps and to revise and repeal certain provisions regarding the cigarette tax.
Presented by: Michael Kenyon, Department of Revenue and Regulation (Handout #1)
Opponents: John Job, Self (Handouts #2,3)
Bill Bailey, Self (Handout #4)
Ronald Olinger, SD Retailers Association (Handout #5)
Representative Garry Moore
MOTION:
DO PASS SB 42
Moved by: Peters
Second by: Van Etten
Action: Was not acted on.
MOTION:
SUBSTITUTE MOTION DEFER SB 42 TO THE 41ST LEGISLATIVE DAY
Moved by: Wick
Second by: Faehn
Action: Prevailed by roll call vote.(10-4-1-0)
Voting Yes: Bradford, Faehn, Feinstein, Juhnke, Lust, Novstrup (Al), Thompson, Turbiville,
Wick, Dykstra
Voting No: Noem, Olson (Ryan), Van Etten, Weems
Excused: Peters
SB 41: revise the procedures used to assess and collect unpaid cigarette taxes.
The sub-committee report was given by Representative Faehn which included Amendment 41fa.
(Handout #6)
"
Section 1. That
§
10-50-6
be amended to read as follows:
10-50-6.
Any
No
cigarette on which
the tax imposed by this chapter
has been paid,
such
the
payment being evidenced by the affixing of
such stamp or imprint, is not
the stamp required by
§
10-
50-18 is
subject to a further tax under this chapter.
However, any person, who possesses two
thousand or more cigarettes that do not bear a tax stamp or imprint indicating that the South Dakota
cigarette tax has been paid, shall pay the tax imposed pursuant to § 10-50-3 plus a penalty equal to
ten percent of the total tax due.
Any person who possesses or receives any cigarettes that do not bear
a tax stamp indicating that the tax imposed by this chapter has been paid, shall pay the tax imposed
pursuant to § 10-50-3, plus interest at the rate of one and one-quarter percent for each month or part
of a month the tax is unpaid, beginning thirty days after the person's first possession or receipt of the
cigarettes.
Section 3. That
§
10-50-35
be amended to read as follows:
10-50-35.
Any cigarettes found at any place in this state without
the
stamps
affixed thereto or
without bearing the imprint impressed by a suitable metering machine approved by the secretary of
revenue and regulation as required
required to be affixed
by this chapter
unless such cigarettes shall
be in the possession of a licensed distributor or wholesaler in the original unopened shipping package
or unless they shall be in a course of transit from without this state and consigned to a licensed
distributor or a licensed wholesaler
are declared to be contraband goods and may be seized by the
secretary
, his agents, or employees,
or by any peace officer of this state
when directed by the
secretary to do so
, without a warrant
, unless the cigarettes are in:
Moved by: Faehn
Second by: Wick
Action: Prevailed by voice vote.
MOTION:
AMEND THE AMENDMENT
Moved by: Feinstein
Second by: Van Etten
Action: Prevailed by voice vote.
MOTION:
DO PASS SB 41 AS AMENDED
Moved by: Van Etten
Second by: Weems
Action: Prevailed by roll call vote.(14-0-1-0)
Voting Yes: Bradford, Faehn, Feinstein, Juhnke, Lust, Noem, Novstrup (Al), Olson (Ryan),
Thompson, Turbiville, Van Etten, Weems, Wick, Dykstra
Excused: Peters
MOTION:
TO AMEND TITLE OF SB 41
Moved by: Van Etten
Linda Daugaard
Second by: Turbiville
Action: Prevailed by voice vote.
MOTION:
ADJOURN
Moved by: Turbiville
Second by: Juhnke
Action: Prevailed by voice vote.
Committee Secretary