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CA AB2948

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/21/2020

Primary Sponsor

Jim Wood

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Origin

State Assembly

2019-2020 Session

AI Summary

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Requires that revenues supplement, rather than replace, existing funding sources for the Song-Brown program.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Health4/24/2020

Full Bill Text

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