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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Archuleta</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 22974.5 of, and to add Section 22980.7 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to public health.</ns0:Title>
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<html:p>Existing law establishes, within the California Health and Human Services Agency, the State Department of Public Health, which has authority over various programs promoting public health, including the California Tobacco Control Program. Existing law requires the department to, among other things, establish a program on tobacco use and health to reduce tobacco use in California by conducting health education interventions and behavior change programs at the state level, in the community, and other nonschool settings. Existing law also requires the department to conduct statewide surveillance of tobacco-related behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes and evaluate the department’s local and state tobacco control programs. Under existing law, the department funds the Kick It California program, which is a tobacco cessation program.
Existing law, the California Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003, provides for the licensure by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration of manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, importers, and retailers of cigarette or tobacco products that are engaged in business in California. The act authorizes the department to suspend or revoke a retailer’s license or impose a civil penalty for a violation of the act’s provisions, as specified, and makes a violation of the act a misdemeanor. Existing law requires a retailer to conspicuously display its license to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products at each retail location in a manner visible to the public.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would require the State Department of Public
Health, no later than July 1, 2027, to develop signage for lung cancer screening, which would include, among other things, eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening and the toll-free telephone number of the Kick It California tobacco cessation program. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2028, a retailer, as defined, engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes or tobacco products to prominently display the signage developed by the
department in its retail locations. The bill would make a retailer who violates the above-described requirement subject to suspension or revocation of their license or a $1,000 penalty, or guilty of a misdemeanor. Because the bill would create a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
<html:p>The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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<ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
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Section 22974.5 of the
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(a)
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A retailer who fails to display a license as required in Section 22972 shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, be liable for a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500).
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(b)
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A retailer who fails to display the signage as required in subdivision (b) of Section 22980.7 shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, be liable for a penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
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Section 22980.7 is added to the
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(a)
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The State Department of Public Health shall, on or before July 1, 2027, develop signage for lung cancer screening. The signage shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
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(1)
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Eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening.
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(2)
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Information on the effectiveness of lung cancer screening.
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(3)
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The toll-free telephone number of the Kick It California tobacco cessation program (Kick It California).
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(4)
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A quick response (QR) code that links to the Kick It California page on the department’s internet website.
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(b)
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Beginning January 1, 2028, a retailer engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes or tobacco products shall prominently display the signage described in this subdivision in every retail location of the retailer.
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No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution.
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