A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the excise tax on cigarettes to provide funding for vital state services such as public health.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 105‑113.5 reads as rewritten:
"§ 105‑113.5.  Tax on cigarettes.
A tax is levied on the sale or possession for sale in this State, by a distributor, of all cigarettes at the rate of six cents (6¢) per individual cigarette."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.