Bill Text: CA AB2948 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2948 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2948

Introduced by Assembly Member Wood

February 21, 2020

An act to add Section 128552.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to health professions funding.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2948, as introduced, Wood. Medically Underserved Account for Physicians.

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.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 128552.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

128552.5.

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.