H 4720 General Bill, By Anderson, D.W. Beatty, A.W. Byrd, Canty, Carnell, Glover, P.B. Harris, Inabinett, Scott, L.S. Taylor and L.S. Whipper
    A Bill to amend Section 12-21-620, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to the tax on tobacco products, so as to increase the tax on each cigarette from three and one-half to five and one-half mills and provide that the additional revenue must be used for certain purposes including Medicaid and mental retardation purposes; and to amend Section 44-7-84, as amended, relating to the determination and allocation of Medicaid nursing home beds and fees, so as to provide that the Department of Health and Environmental Control shall assess a daily seventy-five cents a bed fee on all nursing home beds except beds owned or operated by the State and institutional nursing home beds, to require the fees to be remitted by nursing homes fifteen days before the end of the fiscal quarter, to provide a penalty of one hundred dollars for each day a quarterly assessment is in arrears and to allow DHEC to waive or reduce the penalty, and to provide that nursing homes assessed the five dollar a patient day administrative fee shall continue to pay that assessment through September 30, 1992.
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04/14/92	House	Introduced and read first time HJ-7
04/14/92	House	Referred to Committee on Ways and Means HJ-8