Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 1572: Cigars; TAX to collect data on number sold with sales price equal or greater than $1.50, report.
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- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
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Plain-language summary
HB 1572 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on December 30, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Cigars; TAX to collect data on number sold with sales price equal or greater than $1.50, report. Primary sponsor: Lee Ware (Republican). Most recent recorded action (February 11, 2025): Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (10-Y 5-N).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Department of Taxation; tobacco products tax; cigars; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to update its form TT-8, Virginia Tobacco Products Tax Return (OTP), to begin collecting data on the number of cigars sold in the Commonwealth at a sales price equal to or greater than $1.50 as a distinct category from all other cigars. The bill directs the Department to update such form or devise another appropriate method for data collection as soon as practicable and provide a report of the data so collected and estimated fiscal impacts of adopting a cap of 30 cents ($0.30) per cigar or another rate on the tobacco products tax imposed on this category of cigars to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Finance and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than January 15, 2026.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Ware | Primary sponsor | Republican | House | 72 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (10-Y 5-N)
- Impact statement from TAX (HB1572)
- Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- Finance Substitute agreed to
- Read second time
- Read first time
- Committee substitute printed 25105708D-H1
- Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
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