2008 Legislation
Last Updated: May 8, 2008
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CCPHA Priority Legislation
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| SB 1420 | Padilla (D-20) |
CCPHA, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, CA Optometric Association |
Requires each food facility in the state that is part of a chain to provide nutritional information on menus or menu boards. |
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Passed Senate Health. Senate Floor |
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| AB 2572 | Parra (D-30) |
California Restaurant Association | Codifies existing menu labeling practices into law. Chain restaurants would be allowed to provide nutritional information to consumers in formats such as brochures, tray liners and electronic kiosks. The bill would pre-empt local government from enacting local menu labeling ordinances and would also nullify any existing menu labeling ordinances. |
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Passed Assembly Health
Assembly Appropriations |
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Built Environment
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| Bill | Author | Sponsor | Latest Version | CCPHA Position | Status / Next Steps | ||
| AB 211 | Jones (D-9) | Health Officers Association | This bill would authorize the local health officer to provide assistance to cities and counties with regard to public health issues as they relate to local land use planning and transportation planning processes. | Support | Senate Inactive File | ||
| AB 1358 | Leno (D-13) |
CA Bicycle Coalition | Requires localities to modify local transportation planning processes to better serve people who use transit, walk or bicycle. | Support |
Senate Inactive File |
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| AB 1472 | Leno (D-13) |
This bill would charge the California Department of Public Health to provide technical assistance and grants to local public health agencies and community organizations to evaluate land-use planning decisions to ensure that they create communities that promote health. |
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Senate Appropriations |
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| AB 2360 | Levine (D-40) | Declares legislative intent to enact legislation that would require corporations seeking to do business with the state to provide their employees with benefits that would encourage those employees to lead health lifestyles. | Watch | Passed Assembly Business and Professions
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2989 | Fuentes (D-39) | Establishes the Outdoor Environmental Education and Recreation Program to increase the ability of underserved and at-risk populations to participate in outdoor recreation and educational experiences. Establishes the Outdoor Environmental Education and Recreation Fund to be used to award grants to education programs available to the public and operated by public entities or non-profit organizations. | Support | Passed Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| SB 1418 | Oropeza (D-28) |
This bill would make it unlawful to smoke tobacco or another plant at a state park, state beach, or other unit of the state park system. | Watch | Senate Natural Resources and Water | |||
| SB 1598 | Padilla (D-20) | A measure relating to the dangers of secondhand smoke. | Watch | Passed Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Floor |
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Healthy Food Access/Nutrition
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| AB 97 | Mendoza (D-56) | Author | Prohibits storing, distributing, serving, or using any food, oil, shortening, or margarine containing specified trans fat in the preparation of specified foods within a food facility. | Support |
Senate Floor |
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| AB 433 | Beall (D-24) |
CFPA | This bill would propose the development of a new name for the Food Stamp Program and would require the Department of Social Services to establish a categorical eligibility program fro recipients of Medi-Cal benefits when recipients receive or are eligible to receive benefits funded under the federal TANF block grant. | Watch |
Senate Inactive File |
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| AB 2168 | Jones (D-9) |
Authorizes the adoption of regulations to encourage direct sale by farmers to the public, and provides that the “public” includes both individuals and entity members of the public buying for resale purposes. | Passed Assembly Agriculture.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2572 | Parra (D-30) |
California Restaurant Association | Codifies existing menu labeling practices into law. Chain restaurants would be allowed to provide nutritional information to consumers in formats such as brochures, tray liners and electronic kiosks. The bill would pre-empt local government from enacting local menu labeling ordinances and would also nullify any existing menu labeling ordinances. | Letter of Opposition Oppose |
Passed Assembly Health.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2726 | Leno (D-13) |
CFPA | Allows the existing Health Purchase Pilot Program to use any source of funding and extends the Pilot dates to 1/1/12 to accommodate the challenges presented by securing these alternate funds. | Support | Passed Assembly Agriculture. Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2844 | Laird (D-27) |
CFPA | Requires the state to move to a 6 month reporting system for food stamps and CalWORKS. This system shall follow federal food stamp law with the exception of an IRT for CalWORKS recipients. | Support | Passed Assembly Human Services.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| SB 441 | Torlakson (D-7) | Author | Regulates various aspects of the provision of food and beverages in vending machines, including access to carbonated beverages at schools. | Support |
Assembly Business and Professions |
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| SB 1420 | Padilla (D-20) Migden (D-3) |
CCPHA, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, CA Optometric Association | Requires each food facility in the state that is part of a chain to provide nutritional information. | Sponsor |
Passed Senate Health. Senate Floor |
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Physical Activity/Education
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| AB 2072 | Hayashi (D-18) | Mayor Ron Dellums (Oakland) | Establishes the Physical Education Award Program, which would grant nonmonetary awards to schools conducting physical education courses in accordance to model content standards and demonstrating increasing numbers of students meeting the minimum standards on the physical performance test. Nonmonetary awards could include classification as a distinguished school, listing on a public honor role or commendations from the Governor of Legislature. | Watch | Passed Assembly Education.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| SB 168 | Denham (R-12) | National Federation of the Blind in CA | This bill would form an advisory task force to develop physical education guidelines to promote physical fitness by pupils who are functionally blind or visually impaired. | Watch |
Assembly Appropriations |
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| SB 602 | Torlakson (D-7) | Author | Requires the Department of Education to ensure that the Categorical Program Monitoring process indicates the extent to which each school in a participating school district performs, including in the provision of the state required minimum minutes of physical education instruction. | Support | Assembly Education | ||
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School Foods/Nutrition
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| AB 1966 | Garcia (R-80) | CFPA | Requires each school site meeting qualifications for the federal severe need reimbursement to offer a nutritional breakfast that qualifies for federal reimbursement, beginning with the 2009-10 school year. This bill would only become operative if funding is available in the 2008 Budget Act. | Support | Passed Assembly Education.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2300 | Laird (D-27) |
CFPA | Give the California Department of Education the authority to use MediCAL data to verify school meal eligibility. Additionally, give CDE authority to test usage of this data for enrollment as well. Require CDE to seek any available federal funds for this purpose. | Support | Passed Assembly Education.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2704 | Leno (D-13) |
CFPA | Prohibits the governing board of a school district from entering into or renewing a contract that discourages or prevents schools from providing free tap water and requires that each school district allow for the provision of free tap water in school food service areas. | Support | Passed Assembly Education.
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| AB 2708 | Solario (D-69) | Consumers Union | Prohibits a school district from permitting the display of the name, logo, or trademark of a restaurant or food and beverage manufacturer if any of the products manufactured or sold by the restaurant or manufacturer do not comply with the existing school nutrition standards. | Support | Passed Assembly Education.
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Other
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| AB 2352 | Fuentes (D-39) | This bill has been amended and no longer applies. | |||||
| AB 2375 | Hernandez (D-57) | LCHC | Establishes a health care workforce task force to assist in the development of a health care workforce master plan for the state. | Support | Passed Assembly Labor and Employment.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2463 | Davis (D-48) |
Declares intent of the legislature to enact legislation to address the epidemic of hypertension and diabetes among low income persons and persons of color. | Watch | Passed Assembly Health.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2474 | Galgiani (D-17) | CA-WIC | Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a program to implement the recommendations for improvement identified in the comprehensive strategic plan (requires of the DHS in 2005), which would establish a systematic approach to tracking health impacts of obesity and evaluating prevention programs. | Support | Passed Assembly Health.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| AB 2902 | Swanson (D-16) | Encourages the use of community cased health care workers to provide better health outcomes for underserved communities through the various public health programs, and makes conforming changes in specified public health programs to include their use. | Watch | Passed Assembly Health.
Assembly Appropriations |
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| SB 564 | Ridley-Thomas (D-26) | CA School Health Centers Association, LCHC, CA Primary Care Association | Provides a school health facility that may conduct routine physical, mental health and oral health assessments and provide for any services not offered onsite or through a referral process. | Watch |
Assembly Inactive File |
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| SCA 13 | Torlakson (D-7) | Would impose an excise tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of $0.105 for each cigarette distributed. The revenues collected from the additional tax would be deposited in the Tobacco Excise Tax Account and would be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for health-related purposes. | Watch | Senate Revenue & Tax | |||
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