Legal Trend. State Tobacco Fee Unconstitutional. 3 Key Pieces informed:intel.

Today the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled  a tobacco fee unconstitutional.

The cessation fee of $1.50 was placed on a pack of cigarettes and earmarked for health and human services funding by the recent legislature that was facing a budget shortfall.

A revenue measure in Oklahoma must meet the following criteria:

• it cannot be passed in the last five days of a session
• it must receive a required supermajority vote in favor or a vote by the people to pass

Reuters | Oklahoma Supreme Court rules fee on cigarettes unconstitutional

KOCO | State budget in limbo after Supreme Court strikes down cigarette fee