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• Grocery, cigarette tax-swap bill may return 

Legislation to decrease the tax on groceries and increase the cigarette tax died last week, but it may be back.

Speculation persists that during the final two weeks of the session, there will be efforts to revive the legislation first proposed by Republican Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck to reduce the nation's highest state-imposed tax on groceries and to increase the third lowest tax on cigarettes.

"I am for doing everything I can to get the bill on the floor of the Senate," said Sen. Alan Nunnelee, R-Tupelo. "A measure that is sponsored by 26 senators and has been approved by 91 members of the House deserves to be debated by the Senate."

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