Court Opinion

ID: 3540227
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 22:51:50.365234+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:26.136326
License: Public Domain

Dear Auditor McCaskill:
This office received your letter of February 10, 2006, submitting a fiscal note and fiscal note summary prepared under Section 116.175, RSMo, for an initiative petition to adopt a new section of the Constitution of Missouri, to be known as Section 37(b) of Article IV, relating to a tobacco tax. The fiscal note summary that you submitted is as follows:
  Additional taxes of four cents per cigarette and twenty percent of the manufacturer's invoice price on other tobacco products generates an estimated $351-$499 million annually for tobacco control programs, healthcare for low income Missourians, and payments for services provided to Missouri Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured Missourians. Local governmental fiscal impact is unknown.
Under Section 116.175, we approve the legal content and form of the fiscal note summary. Because our review of the fiscal note summary is mandated by statute, no action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition or as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents.
Very truly yours,
                                           JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON Attorney General