Amend CSHB 2154 (Senate committee printing) by striking 
SECTIONS 10 through 15 of the bill (page 3, line 32 through page 5, 
line 16), substituting the following appropriately numbered 
SECTIONS, and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill 
accordingly:
	SECTION __.  Section 155.001, Tax Code, is amended by adding 
Subdivisions (1-a) and (10-a) and redesignating Subdivision (1) as 
Subdivision (1-b) to read as follows:
		(1-a)  "Affiliate" means a person who, because of stock 
ownership, a contract, or otherwise, controls, is controlled by, or 
is under common control with another person.
		(1-b) [(1)] "Bonded agent" means a person in this state 
who is an agent of a person outside this state and receives cigars 
and tobacco products in interstate commerce and stores the cigars 
and tobacco products for distribution or delivery to distributors 
under orders from the person outside this state.
		(10-a)  "Manufacturer's list price" means the price 
reported monthly by a manufacturer to the comptroller as required 
under Section 155.103(a)(4), which must be the highest gross price 
at which a unit of a product is offered for purchase by the 
manufacturer to distributors in this state that are not affiliates 
of the manufacturer, inclusive of all delivery, destination, and 
other charges of any kind that are assessed based on the number of 
units sold.  A sales price that is less than the manufacturer's list 
price is assumed to include a trade discount, special discount, or 
deal.
	SECTION __.  Section 155.0211(b), Tax Code, is amended to 
read as follows:   
	(b)  The tax rate for tobacco products other than cigars is 
75 [40] percent of the manufacturer's list price, exclusive of any 
trade discount, special discount, or deal.