2003 Senate Bill 781 ↩

House Roll Call 764: Passed

To revise a provision of the legislation implementing the 1998 tobacco lawsuit master settlement agreement. Under the bill tobacco companies which are not parties to the agreement, and which pay into escrow accounts established to ensure future payments under the agreement, would not get annual refunds based on a formula of the aggregate escrow payments from both participating and non-participating companies. See House Bill 5221, which imposes a 35-cents per pack tax on the sales of those companies.