Bill Text: CA SB438 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Earthquake safety: statewide earthquake early warning program and system.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 803, Statutes of 2016. [SB438 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB438-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 438	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 29, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 3, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hill

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

    An act to add Section 119406 to the Health and Safety
Code, relating to electronic cigarettes.   An act
relating to earthquake safety. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 438, as amended, Hill.  Electronic cigarettes.
  Earthquake safety.  
   Existing law creates, as an independent unit within the Business,
Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic
Safety Commission, and provides that the commission is responsible
for certain duties related to earthquake hazard mitigation,
including, among others, helping to coordinate the earthquake safety
activities of government at all levels.  
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to work with
the Administration through the fall 2015 recess in order to
establish a California Earthquake Safety Board by July 1, 2016. 

   Existing law, to the extent not preempted by federal law, makes it
unlawful for a person to sell or otherwise furnish electronic
cigarettes to a person under 18 years of age.  
   This bill would require all cartridges for electronic cigarettes
and solutions for filling and refilling an electronic cigarette to be
in child-resistant packaging, as defined. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares that
mitigation against earthquake damage must be addressed in the
immediate term and that it intends to work with the Administration
through the fall 2015 recess in order to establish a California
Earthquake Safety Board by July 1, 2016.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 119406 is added to the
Health and Safety Code, to read:
   119406.  (a) All cartridges for electronic cigarettes and
solutions for filling or refilling an electronic cigarette shall be
in child-resistant packaging.
   (b) "Child-resistant packaging" means packaging that is consistent
with federal standards adopted by the federal Consumer Product
Safety Commission (Part 1700 of Title 16 of the Code of Federal
Regulations).