Bill Text: CA SB395 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Excise tax: electronic cigarettes: Health Careers Opportunity Grant Program: Small and Rural Hospital Relief Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 489, Statutes of 2021. [SB395 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB395-Amended.html
Amended
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Senate
May 03, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Senate
April 12, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 25, 2021 |
Introduced by Senator Caballero (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Arambula) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bauer-Kahan, Quirk-Silva, Robert Rivas, and Stone) |
February 11, 2021 |
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 7 (commencing with Section 128586) is added to Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:Article 7. Health Careers Opportunity Grant Program
128586.
The Health Careers Opportunity Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Health Professions Education Foundation for the purpose of improving access by underrepresented students from disadvantaged backgrounds to health profession programs offered by the state’s public postsecondary education institutions.128587.
As used in this article:128588.
(a) The Health Careers Opportunity Grant Program Fund is hereby created in the Treasury.128589.
(a) The foundation shall provide grants to all of the following types of public postsecondary education institutions:128590.
(a) In providing grants to eligible entities pursuant to this article, the foundation shall prioritize applicants that reflect a comprehensive approach to establishing, enhancing, and expanding health educational programs that propose to increase the number of underrepresented students from disadvantaged backgrounds pursuing a health professions career.128591.
(a) The foundation shall work with other existing programs under its administration to implement this section and provide opportunities for underrepresented students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access the grant program and other foundation programs.Implementation and Administrative Costs.
(a)Moneys from the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund shall be used to reimburse the board for expenses incurred in the administration, calculation, and collection of the tax imposed by this article and for expenses incurred in the calculation and distribution of funds and in the promulgation of regulations as required by this act, provided, however, that after deducting the necessary funds pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 30130.54, not more than 5 percent annually of the funds remaining in the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund shall be used for such administrative costs.
(b)Moneys from the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund shall be used to reimburse the independent nonpartisan California State Auditor up to four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) annually for actual costs incurred to conduct each of the audits required by Section 30130.56 for the purpose of providing public transparency and ensuring that the revenues generated by this article are used for health care, tobacco use prevention and research.
(c)Moneys from the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund in the amount of forty million dollars ($40,000,000) annually shall be used to provide funding to the University of California for the purpose and goal of increasing the number of primary care and emergency
physicians trained in California. This goal shall be achieved by providing this funding to the University of California to sustain, retain, and expand graduate medical education programs to achieve the goal of increasing the number of primary care and emergency physicians in the State of California based on demonstrated workforce needs and priorities.
(1)For the purposes of this subdivision, “primary care” means internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, and pediatrics.
(2)Funding shall be prioritized for direct graduate medical education costs for programs serving medically underserved areas and populations.
(3)For the purposes of this subdivision, all allopathic and osteopathic
residency programs accredited by federally recognized accrediting organizations and located in California shall be eligible to apply to receive funding to support resident education in California.
(4)The University of California shall annually review physician shortages by specialty across the state and by region. Based on this review, to the extent that there are demonstrated state or regional shortages of nonprimary care physicians, funds may be used to expand graduate medical education programs that are intended to address such shortages.
(5)____ percent of the moneys in the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund attributable to the California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax, imposed by Section 31002 shall be annually allocated to the
Health Careers Opportunity Grant Program Fund created pursuant to Section 128588 of the Health and Safety Code.
(d)Moneys from the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund in the amount of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) annually shall be used to provide funding to the State Department of Public Health state dental program for the purpose and goal of educating about, preventing and treating dental disease, including dental disease caused by use of cigarettes and other tobacco products. This goal shall be achieved by the program providing this funding to activities that support the state dental plan based on demonstrated oral health needs, prioritizing serving underserved areas and populations. Funded program activities shall include, but not be limited to, the following: education, disease prevention,
disease treatment, surveillance, and case management.
The department shall have broad authority to fully implement and effectuate the purposes of this subdivision, including the determination of underserved communities, the development of program protocols, the authority to reimburse state-sponsored services related to the program, and the authority to contract with one or more individuals or public or private entities to provide program activities.
(e)Moneys from the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund in the amount of forty-eight million dollars ($48,000,000) annually shall be used for the purpose of funding law enforcement efforts to reduce illegal sales of tobacco products, particularly illegal sales to minors; to reduce cigarette smuggling,
tobacco tax evasion, the sale of tobacco products without a license and the sale of counterfeit tobacco products; to enforce tobacco-related laws, court judgments, and legal settlements; and to conduct law enforcement training and technical assistance activities for tobacco-related statutes; provided that these funds are not to be used to supplant existing state or local funds for these same purposes. These funds shall be apportioned in the following manner:
(1)Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) annually to the California Department of Justice/Office of the Attorney General to be distributed to local law enforcement agencies to support and hire front-line law enforcement peace officers for programs, including, but not limited to, enforcement of state and local laws related to the illegal sales and marketing of tobacco to minors, and increasing
investigative activities and compliance checks to reduce illegal sales of cigarettes and tobacco products to minors and youth.
(2)Six million dollars ($6,000,000) annually to the board to be used to enforce laws that regulate the distribution and retail sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products, such as laws that prohibit cigarette and tobacco product smuggling, counterfeiting, selling untaxed cigarettes and other tobacco products, and selling cigarettes and other tobacco products without a proper license.
(3)Six million dollars ($6,000,000) annually to the California Department of Public Health to be used to support programs, including, but not limited to, providing grants and contracts to local law enforcement agencies to provide training and funding for the enforcement of state
and local laws related to the illegal sales of tobacco to minors, increasing investigative activities, and compliance checks, and other appropriate activities to reduce illegal sales of tobacco products to minors, including, but not limited to, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, pursuant to Section 22952 of the Business and Professions Code.
(4)Six million dollars ($6,000,000) annually to the California Attorney General to be used for activities, including, but not limited to, enforcing laws that regulate the distribution and sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products, such as laws that prohibit cigarette smuggling, counterfeiting, selling untaxed tobacco, selling tobacco without a proper license and selling tobacco to minors, and enforcing tobacco-related laws, court judgments, and settlements.
(f)Not more than 5 percent of the funds received pursuant to this article shall be used by any state or local agency or department receiving such funds for administrative costs.
(g)The California State Auditor shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) to define administrative costs for purposes of this article. Such regulations shall take into account the differing nature of the agencies or departments receiving funds.
(h)The board shall determine beginning two years following the effective date of this act, and annually thereafter, any reduction in
revenues, following the first year after the effective date of this act, resulting from a reduction in the consumption of cigarettes and tobacco products due to the additional taxes imposed on cigarettes by this article, and the increase in the tax on tobacco products required by subdivision (b) of Section 30123. If the board determines there has been a reduction in revenues, the amount of funds allocated pursuant to subdivisions (c), (d), and (e) shall be reduced proportionately.
SEC. 3.SEC. 2.
Part 13.6 (commencing with Section 31000) is added to Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read:PART 13.6 Healthy Outcomes and Prevention Education (HOPE) Act
31000.
This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Healthy Outcomes and Prevention Education (HOPE) Act.”31001.
For purposes of this article:31002.
(a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2022, a purchaser shall pay a tax at the rate of 12.5 percent of the gross receipts from the retail sale of electronic cigarettes in this state.31003.
For each retail sale of an electronic cigarette, a retailer shall provide a purchaser with a receipt or other document that sets out and separately identifies the “California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax” and the amount paid by the purchaser.31004.
(a) (1) The department may, upon a hearing, revoke or suspend one or more of the permits held by a person after giving the person 10 days’ notice in writing specifying the time and place of the hearing and requiring the person to show cause why the person’s permit or permits should not be revoked if any of the following is true:31005.
(a) All revenues, interest, and penalties derived from the California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax shall be deposited into the California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury, less payments for refunds and reimbursement to the department for expenses incurred in the administration and collection of the tax.(3)Fifty-nine percent of the moneys into the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund created by Section 30130.53.