SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1149
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SINGLETON.
Read 1st time February 12, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3742S.06I
AN ACT
To repeal section 149.065, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to the fund for lifelong health, with a referendum clause.
Section A. Section 149.065, RSMo, is repealed and three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 149.065, 149.084 and 149.086, to read as follows:
149.065. All taxes collected pursuant to this chapter, except for those portions required to be deposited in the fair share fund [or], the health initiatives fund, or the fund for lifelong health established pursuant to section 149.086, shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the state school moneys fund.
149.084. In addition to the taxes imposed in sections 149.015, 149.082 and 149.160, there is hereby imposed a tax upon the sale of each package of cigarettes and each tobacco product other than cigarettes. Such tax shall be equal to seventy-five cents per package of cigarettes and ten percent of the manufacturer's invoice price before discounts and deals for tobacco products other than cigarettes. The additional tax shall be credited to the fund for lifelong health created in section 149.086. The tax imposed by this section shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time as the taxes imposed in this chapter.
149.086. 1. There is hereby established an "Advisory Committee on the Fund for Lifelong Health" within the department of health and senior services to be composed of fourteen members. The committee shall consist of the following members:
(1) Two members of the senate, one from each of the two major political parties appointed by the president pro tem of the senate;
(2) Two members of the house of representatives, one from each of the two major political parties appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;
(3) The chair of the senate appropriations committee and the chair of the house budget committee;
(4) The director of the department of health and senior services, or his or her designee;
(5) The director of the department of social services, or his or her designee;
(6) The director of the department of mental health, or his or her designee;
(7) Four members of the public, one of which shall be a physician, licensed pursuant to chapter 334, RSMo, to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate.
2. The committee shall make initial recommendations to the general assembly and the governor on July 1, 2003, and shall make recommendations by December 1st of each year thereafter regarding the expenditure of moneys deposited in the fund for lifelong health pursuant to subsection 3 of this section.
3. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Fund for Lifelong Health" for the purpose of funding elderly pharmaceutical assistance programs, for use in comprehensive tobacco cessation, education, treatment programs, core public health funding, including health care and health care services, rural health initiatives, health care practitioner reimbursement, grants for the innovative development of health care delivery, life sciences research, and for Missouri land grant institutions with medical schools for the purpose of discovering, developing and perfecting new and current technologies in the medical sciences. Expenditures from the fund for lifelong health and recommendations made by the committee established pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall only be for the purposes delineated in this subsection.
Section B. This act is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state for approval or rejection at a special election which is hereby ordered and which shall be held and conducted on the first Tuesday in November, 2002, pursuant to the laws and constitutional provisions of this state applicable to general elections and the submission of referendum measures by initiative petitions, and this act shall become effective when approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon at such election and not otherwise.