AMENDMENT FOR HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE ENGROSSED BILL
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___________________ moved that HB 1280 be amended as follows:


     On page 6 of the House Commerce Committee engrossed bill, delete lines 3 to 7, inclusive.

     On page 7, line 1, after "thousand" insert "five hundred".

     On page 10, between lines 19 and 20, insert:

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     Section 20. Nothing in this Act prohibits any distributor, wholesaler, or dealer from selling its existing inventory of cigarettes on or after January 1, 2011, if the distributor, wholesaler, or dealer establishes that the state tax stamps were affixed to the cigarettes before January 1, 2011. In addition, the inventory of cigarettes must have been purchased in a comparable quantity to the inventory that was purchased during the same period for the preceding year.".