Tobacco-Related Legislation 2007
SB 7 (Oropeza, 2007) prohibits a driver or passenger from smoking in a moving or stopped car when a minor is present.
Status: Chaptered
SB 24 (Torlakson, 2007) imposes a health mitigation fee on consumers of cigarettes and other tobacco products, that, when lit, produce secondhand smoke. The Department of Public Health will determine the fee amount.
Status: Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee Suspense File
SB 458 (Torlakson, 2007) creates the Lung Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Research Program to fund specifically research into early detection and treatment of lung cancer. The University of California’s Tobacco Related Disease Research Program would administrate the program.
Status: Assembly Appropriations Committee Suspense File
SB 554 (Migden, 2007) creates a standard definition of cigarettes for purposes of the Cigarette Tax Law and other related provisions.
Status: Senate Floor
SB 624 (Padilla, 2007) increases the civil penalties under the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act and expands the agencies that are permitted to carry out investigations of illegal tobacco sales to minors under the STAKE Act, from the Department of Public Health to include the Attorney General and other state and local agencies.
Status: Chaptered
SB 625 (Padilla, 2007) establishes a $100 reinstatement fee on businesses that sell cigarettes and other tobacco products that fail to renew the necessary licenses.
Status: Chaptered
SCA 13 (Torlakson, 2007) imposes a $2.10 tax on cigarettes and an equivalent amount on other tobacco products. Revenues will fund children’s healthcare, tobacco cessation services, general health care and lung cancer research.
Status: Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, not set for a hearing
AB 594 (Dymally, 2007) specifically states that tobacco cessation programs are benefits under MediCal and requires the Department of Health Care Services to implement outreach and education initiatives to inform MediCal recipients of the tobacco cessation services benefits.
Status: Assembly Committee on Agriculture
AB 1585 (Lieber, 2007) includes gift certificates, gift cards, or other similar offers, coupon or coupon offers, in the definition of nonsale distribution–giving away at no or nominal cost–of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. Such distribution is prohibited in public places by anyone in the business of selling or distributing smokeless tobacco or cigarettes.
Status: Chaptered
AB 1617 (DeSaulnier, 2007) prohibits the transportation of cigarettes to persons in California except when shipments are made either to an entity licensed by the Board of Equalization for tobacco transactions or to certain other specified entities. The bill also broadens the definition of bidis, a prohibited tobacco product.
Status: Vetoed
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