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\"The crux of this bill\" is to create a licensing path so remote retailers can remit the OTP tax, Assemblymember Brian Hibbits said, describing the difficulty current law poses for online sellers who are not wholesalers inside Nevada.

Outside counsel Beth Oliva, who said she represents the Cigar Association of America and the Premium Cigar Coalition and is a partner with the law firm (transcript: Foxtrot Child), described national work to draft model legislation and the need to align excise statutes with post-Wayfair remote sales rules. \"When we first started working on this in 2023 based on 2022 sales, we were estimating... about $750,000 in revenue to the state,\" Oliva said, adding that the amount may be higher now. She told the committee approximately six of seven premium-cigar company members would meet the constitutional thresholds for remote-seller registration and that roughly 30 companies may ultimately register in Nevada.

Oliva and Hibbits told senators the bill includes four core pieces: conformity with constitutional thresholds (Wayfair), a firm tax obligation and collection authority for the Department of Taxation, a licensing mechanism for remote retail sellers, and a workable tax base that reflects premium-cigar business models. Oliva said the model measure had been enacted in other states including Colorado, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Committee members pressed for revenue and universe estimates. Senator Steinbeck asked for projected revenue; Oliva replied with the prior analysis estimating about $750,000 in 2022 sales, with the likely present-year figure somewhat higher. Senator Kruskau asked why industry was sponsoring the measure; Oliva said industry wanted to reduce bad actors and create uniform compliance and enforcement standards.

The bill contains licensing and enforcement provisions, including a permanent license revocation for felony convictions related to manufacture or distribution of cigars or pipe tobacco that mirror penalties for wholesalers, and a written requirement for age-verification technology on websites. Assemblymember Hibbits reiterated the bill does not change existing premium cigar excise tax rates or the pilot cap enacted by the Legislature two years ago; rather, he said, the bill seeks to capture remote sellers who are not currently contributing to state excise receipts.

Department of Taxation staff and sponsors told the committee the department can implement the licensing changes but would require programming work. The public hearing record contained no on-the-record opposition; proponents included industry counsel and the premium-cigar trade groups. The committee took the bill into work session and voted to pass AB 471. The motion was made by Senator Donate and seconded by Senator Cruz Crawford; the committee recorded four votes in favor and one nay (Senator Stone).

With the committee's favorable recommendation, AB 471 will move forward for floor consideration.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","5/31/2025 - Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development","oneSentenceSummary","Assemblymember Brian Hibbits presented Assembly Bill 471, explaining the measure would create a retail remote license for internet and remote sellers of cigars and pipe tobacco and give the state a mechanism to collect the other-tobacco-products excise tax from those sellers.","taxTitle","2025 Legislature NV, Nevada","taxId",78440,"location","Nevada","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6219670,"Nevada committee advances bill to give partial property tax break to surviving spouses of service members killed in action",1800,95000,1895000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3621338-973e67742d3c4430680193a0e3749c03&start=95&end=1895","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3621338-973e67742d3c4430680193a0e3749c03/thumbnail_95000.jpg","/articles/6219670/Nevada/Nevada-committee-advances-bill-to-give-partial-property-tax-break-to-surviving-spouses-of-service-members-killed-in-action","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6219670-c4d92c97f85ae88edeb268a7ba1734e5/orig.mp4?Expires=1770710850&Signature=A-Jx-vYfsX43W6wvBEP7QuX8f~-3SCZnLBL16Cd25cdYE3wQbhcvcKgHNfoA4zkGx39-DZGzYnVNwlYHKLjmh8aWfaj~3P5hxLdVWPI2eH2QvdVkglSZ8pWsl3AbSwkdnyDEni7~BFb3LZf68RW0N35wU5zk5Nupk8SwLYEvjaIJhODChchKi101xVpF2WR~KbTkjIvvQohJ1sSlHaVyRRHhHBva5T5cGeCU2HzOzjLyxlCPNHVpu3k0Hluco8hJ2u9vpFNH0V8eKlFxbqkyQRfYN4sQRi2pATVFkB7H73g11-mdVKmqLKcwqbCo3IJ6LFd9fZEGk96UFU1x3tXVyg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Assemblymember Brian Hibbits told the Senate Committee on Revenue that Assembly Bill 243 would provide a partial property tax exemption to surviving spouses of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who were killed in action.

\"We know that our service members sacrifice tremendously for us,\" Assemblymember Brian Hibbits said, presenting the bill. \"Recognizing the weight of all of these sacrifices is incredibly important, but it is critical that we specifically acknowledge and consider what we can do to support the family members whose spouses have been killed in the line of duty.\"

The bill would grant a surviving spouse an exemption equal to the percentage used for a disabled veteran's exemption under current law, applied to up to the first $20,000 of a property's assessed value, subject to qualifying conditions in the bill. As presented, those conditions include that a claimant must be the surviving spouse or registered domestic partner, must not have remarried, and may claim the exemption in only one county.

In committee questioning, Senator Stone asked how many Nevada spouses would be eligible. \"The number of spouses is unknown,\" Hibbits replied.

Hibbits said there have been 57 Gold Star families in Nevada over the past 25 years, but added that whether those families included surviving spouses who had not remarried is information \"that is not kept.\" Supporters likewise acknowledged the number of actual eligible individuals is uncertain. Andrew Lee Pilbot, chairman of the United Veterans Legislative Council for Nevada, said his outreach to the statewide Gold Star coordinator confirmed the 57-family count and urged passage. \"It's a small number but it's the right thing,\" Pilbot said.

Committee members also confirmed there were no amendments and no opposition or neutral testimony on the record during the public hearing. After the hearing, the committee met in work session. Senator Stone moved to pass the bill; Senator Steinbeck seconded. The committee passed AB 243 unanimously.

If enacted, the bill would create the new exemption as written in the Assembly bill; the measure as presented does not specify a data-reporting requirement detailing the count of eligible spouses or an automatic inflation adjustment for the exemption amount. Questions about administrative implementation and whether the Veterans Affairs disability percentage referenced in the bill would be interpreted as a fixed percentage or mirror changes to other veteran exemptions were raised in committee discussion but not resolved during the hearing.

The committee referred the bill forward with a favorable recommendation.","The Senate Committee on Revenue voted to pass Assembly Bill 243, which would create a partial property tax exemption for surviving spouses of U.S. service members killed in action. Supporters called the measure a targeted benefit; lawmakers pressed for basic counts and program details before the unanimous committee vote.","actionData","errors"]

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Committee advances bill to license remote cigar and pipe-tobacco retailers so state can collect excise tax

Nevada committee advances bill to give partial property tax break to surviving spouses of service members killed in action