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Legislative Resources

Advertising | Enabling Legislation | Internet Sales and Taxation | Second Hand Smoke
 Vending Machines | Warning Labels | Youth Sales and Possession | Helpful Links

California Legislation relating to the Tobacco Control Section. This does not include local ordinances.

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Senate Bill No. 376 – restricts tobacco advertising billboards within 500 feet of any school and restricts tobacco vending machines, tobacco sampling and promotion, tobacco sales to minors, smoking in public places and smoking in the workplace

Author: Frank Hill
Enacted: 1991
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Advertising

Senate Bill No. 99, Chapter 1170 – includes guidelines for local lead agencies, as well as extending local tobacco education programs to July 1, 1994 and developing a TCS program for the provision of tobacco education to pregnant and postpartum women and other target groups

Author: Diane E. Watson
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on October 14, 1991
Noted as urgent to take effect immediately
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Enabling Legislation

Assembly Bill No. 99, Chapter 278 – extends the contracts created in AB 75 through July 1994 and specifies that the funds allocated for tobacco use and prevention programs be allocated prospectively, to the counties, on a quarterly basis

Author: Phillip Isenberg
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on July 30, 1991
Noted as urgent to take effect immediately
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Enabling Legislation

Assembly Bill No. 75, Chapter 1331 - Enabling Prop 99 legislation

Author: Phillip Isenberg
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on October 2, 1989
Noted as urgent to take effect immediately
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Enabling Legislation

Assembly Bill No. 1830, Chapter 685 - Prohibits the distribution or sale of tobacco products directly or indirectly to any person under the age of 18 years through the United States Postal Service or through any other public or private postal or package delivery service at locations, including, but not limited to, public mailboxes and mailbox stores, unless the distributor or seller meets the following provisions

Author: Dario Frommer
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on September 18, 2002
Affects Section 22963 of the Business and Professions Code.

Internet Sales and Taxation

Senate Bill No. 1766, Chapter 686 - Provides intent language that the Legislature facilitates the collection of all applicable state surtaxes and sales or use taxes on cigarettes sold to residents of California over the Internet or by mail order

Author: Deborah V. Ortiz
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on September 18, 2002
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Internet Sales and Taxation

Assembly Bill No. 846, Chapter 342   - This law prohibits smoking within 20 feet of main entrances, exits, and operable windows of any building owned, leased and occupied by the state, county or city and buildings of the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), and California community colleges

Author: Juan Vargas
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on September 8, 2003.
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Second Hand Smoke

Assembly Bill No. 188 Chapter 150 - Smoking ban within a playground or tot lot sandbox area.

Author: Juan Vargas
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on August 6, 2001
Affects Section 104495 of the Health and Safety Code

Second Hand Smoke

Assembly Bill No. 3037, Chapter 989 - smoke-free workplaces, bars, and restaurants

Author: Sal Cannella
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on September 27, 1996
Affects Section 6404.5 of the Labor Code.

Second Hand Smoke

Assembly Bill No. 13 Chapter 310 - Prohibits smoking in enclosed workplaces

Author: Terry Friedman
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on July 21, 1994
Affects Section 6404.5 of the Labor Code
 

Second Hand Smoke

Assembly Bill No. 615 Chapter 335 - Prohibits smoking in day care facilities.

Author: Mike Gotch
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on September 8, 1993
Affects Section 1596.795 of the Health and Safety Code
 

Second Hand Smoke

Assembly Bill No. 686, Chapter 823 – Vending Machines

Author: Curtis R. Tucker
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on October 13, 1995
Affects sections 22958 and 22960 of the Business and Professions Code
 

Vending Machines

Assembly Bill No. 1595, Chapter 693 - requires each manufacturer, as defined, or importer of cigars to place, or cause to be placed, one of 3 specified warning labels on each retail package of cigars packaged for sale after September 1, 2000, and shipped for distribution in California

Author: Carole Migden
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on October 10, 1999
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Warning Labels

Senate Bill No. 757, Chapter 376 - clarifies and enhances the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act and authorizes the Department of Health Services to make targeted sting inspections of retail sites where minors are being sold tobacco products

Author: Deborah V. Ortiz
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on October 1, 2001
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Youth Sales and Possession

Senate Bill No. 1849 Chapter 1166 - Makes it unlawful to “possess” tobacco products by every person under the age of 18 years.

Author: David G. Kelley
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on September 30, 1996
Affects Section 308 of the Penal Code
 

Youth Sales and Possession

Senate Bill No.1927 Chapter 1009 - Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act.

Author: Tom Hayden
Enacted: Filed with Secretary of State on September 29, 1994
Affects multiple parts of California Code
 

Youth Sales and Possession

 

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