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CA AB2948
Bill
Status
2/21/2020
Primary Sponsor
Jim Wood
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AI Summary
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Creates the California Healthcare Workforce Training Tax Revenue Fund as a continuously appropriated fund to receive revenues from a proposed nicotine-content-based e-cigarette tax.
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Deposits all e-cigarette tax revenues received by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development into the new fund for use solely in the Song-Brown Family Physician Training Program.
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Directs fund revenues to increase awards to accredited medical schools, teaching health centers, and programs training primary care physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and registered nurses.
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Requires that revenues supplement, rather than replace, existing funding sources for the Song-Brown program.
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Makes an appropriation and requires a 2/3 vote for passage due to the continuous appropriation mechanism.
Legislative Description
Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act: funding.
Last Action
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
5/5/2020