
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, March 3, 1992                   TAG: 9203030302
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

PANEL INCLUDES COUNTY IN CIGARETTE-TAX BILL

A House of Delegates committee agreed Monday that Roanoke County should be able to levy a 10-cents-a-pack cigarette tax.

House Majority Leader Richard Cranwell, D-Vinton, succeeded in adding the county to a bill that would permit the cigarette tax in four Northern Virginia counties.

The Finance Committee endorsed the bill, 10-9. It will go to the full House this week.

If the measure is approved, it would return to the Senate for a verdict on whether Roanoke County can be included.

The four counties originally covered - Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun and Arlington - would be able to levy taxes of 15 cents per pack.

Cranwell said Roanoke County could get by with a lesser rate.

Cranwell denied that he plans to try to transform the bill into a statewide cigarette tax, an idea the House already has rejected once this session.

If anyone tries to make this bill into a statewide levy, Cranwell promised to reject it. - Staff report

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