Bill Text: CA AB2948 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act: funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-05 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. [AB2948 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2948-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 04, 2020 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Wood |
February 21, 2020 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Under existing law, the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians is established within the Health Professions Education Fund for purposes of providing funding for the ongoing operations by the Health Professions Education Foundation of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program, the Physician Volunteer Program, and other specified activities.
Existing law regulates the sale and taxation of various tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes. Under existing law, an e-cigarette is a type of device or delivery system sold in combination with nicotine which can be used to deliver to a person nicotine in aerosolized or vaporized form.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to appropriate a percentage of the tax
revenues generated from proposed increased taxation on e-cigarettes, and to deposit those moneys into the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians.
Digest Key
Vote:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 128242 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:128242.
(a) The California Healthcare Workforce Training Tax Revenue Fund is hereby established.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to appropriate a percentage of the tax revenues generated from the proposed increased taxation on e-cigarettes, and to deposit those moneys into the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians in the Health Professions Education Fund.