Alcohol Tax Hearing

Dear AMSA,

Some of your members will be driving to Annapolis to attend a hearing involving increasing the State tax rates on alcoholic beverages sold in Maryland.  

The tax revenue will be used for additional funding for specified health services (see below).

Where: State Legislature, Annapolis, Maryland, House Committee on Ways and Means

When: Thursday, March 3rd.  Members would meet in front of Stamp at 11:30AM.  We would leave campus no later than 11:45AM, as the hearing begins at 1:00PM.

If you are interested in going please e-mail me and include your NAME, PHONE NUMBER and whether or not you would be willing to DRIVE.

Thanks,

Tom

Tax Increase Entails:
Increasing the State tax rates for alcoholic beverages sold in Maryland from $1.50 to $10.03 per gallon for distilled spirits, from 40 cents to $2.96 per gallon for wine, and from 9 cents to $1.16 per gallon for beer.

Specified Health Services Entail:

The Comptroller must distribute a portion of the alcoholic beverage tax revenue to certain special funds to be used only for certain purposes; establishing the Developmental Disability Support Fund as a special fund to be used to support certain services for individuals with developmental disabilities; establishing the Addiction Treatment, Prevention, and Recovery Support Fund as a special fund to be used to support certain programs for the treatment and prevention of drug and alcohol addictions; establishing the Mental Health Care Fund as a special fund to be used to support certain programs for the treatment and prevention of mental illness; establishing the State Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Fund as a special fund to be used to support certain programs relating to tobacco use prevention and cessation; establishing the Maryland Medicaid Trust Fund as a special fund to be used to provide certain health care services to certain individuals; establishing the Health Care Personnel Training Fund as a special fund to be used to provide grants to certain training consortiums.

Comments

[Louis Vuitton Emprise replicas]

-cheap Burberry watch replicasestablishing the Developmental Disability Support Fund as a special fund to be used to support certain services for individuals with developmental disabilities

[Replica Breitling Watches]

I found so many interesting tudor submariner replica watches
stuff in your blog especially its discussion, if can more pictures will be better. From the tons of comments on your articles, I guess top grade omega constilation replica
I am not the only one having all the enjoyment here! keep up the good work.

[north face clearance]

"It does not matter does not matter, as long as the little fragments of the body is indeed dead to prove locations on the line. Does not matter how north face clearance many left." Polaris Jun hoist away on the ground side of the body with the side and said: "That, fairy said, this is the store she was wrong jade tablets, if the north face store to find the store has been used before, the store will be responsible

[cool grey 11]

Referring to one pair of sneakers, we have to think over their capacity. It is no exaggeration to say that cool grey 11 is the most suitable for wearing casually and playing basketball, jordan 11 cool grey were eventually released in 2001 and re-retro'd in 2009 with the nickname "jordan space jams". Another version of the XI's were released on December 23, 2010 called the "jordan cool grey".the jordan cool grey 11 has very strong ground control. which is also one of the best capacity with perfectly understandable. If every pair of shoes has its own soul, undoubtedly, the jordan 11 concord is the most respect ones for me. jordan retro 11 was released in 2010 and had patent leather. which appeared in the playoffs firstly in early 1994. At that time, there are two version of this pair, one of which is the black / white color way, and we called it Jordan 11 Space Jam for being worn by Jordan playing movie.