HR 5264 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Tobacco Smuggling Eradication Act of 2002

Introduced Jul 26, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Lloyd Doggett D-TX

Fact sheet

Latest action · Aug 20, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedJul 26, 2002
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Tobacco Smuggling Eradication Act of 2002 - Amends chapter 52 (Tobacco Products and Cigarette Papers and Tubes) of the Internal Revenue Code to require all packages of tobacco products to carry a unique legibly printed serial number by which the Secretary of the Treasury can identify the manufacturer or importer and the location and date of manufacture or importation. Requires tobacco products sold on Indian reservations to be labeled as such.

Requires a tobacco wholesaler to have a permit and to maintain certain records.

Requires export warehouse proprietors to file certain reports with the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into certain tobacco related information agreements with foreign countries.

Establishes new offenses relating to the distribution of tobacco.

Raises the $1,000 civil penalty under chapter 52 to $10,000.

Amends the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act to: (1) expand the applicability of such Act from cigarettes only to "tobacco product" (cigars, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and pipe tobacco); (2) define "contraband tobacco product" as a quantity of tobacco product that is equivalent to or more than 30,000 cigarettes (currently, 60,000) which bear no evidence of the payment of applicable State tobacco taxes; (3) establish new unlawful acts; and (4) require additional recordkeeping.

Repeals Federal law provisions concerning reports required to State tobacco tax administrators by individuals engaged in interstate cigarette commerce.

Cosponsors 90

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 26, 2002.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAdam B. SchiffOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-CAAnna G. EshooOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-NYAnthony D. WeinerOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-MDBenjamin L. CardinOriginalJul 26, 2002
I-VTBernard SandersOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-MABill DelahuntOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-NJBill Pascrell, Jr.OriginalJul 26, 2002
D-CABob FilnerOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-OKBrad CarsonOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-CABrad ShermanOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-NYCarolyn McCarthyOriginalJul 26, 2002
D-TXCiro D. RodriguezOriginalJul 26, 2002
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Aug 20, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
  2. Jul 26, 2002Introduced in House
  3. Jul 26, 2002Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.

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