20250SB__112496AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-17 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-04-08 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-04-27 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-06-25 2025 SB AMD Introduced by Senator Archuleta (Coauthors: Senators Padilla and Reyes) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Garcia) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Archuleta COAUTHOR SENATE Padilla COAUTHOR SENATE Reyes COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Garcia

An act to add

Section 22974.6 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to public health. public health Public health. Existing law establishes, within the California Health and Human Services Agency, the State Department of Public Health, which has authority over various programs promoting public health, including the California Tobacco Control Program.

Existing law requires the department to, among other things, establish a program on tobacco use and health to reduce tobacco use in California by conducting health education interventions and behavior change programs at the state level, in the community, and other nonschool settings. Existing law also requires the department to conduct statewide surveillance of tobacco-related behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes and evaluate the department’s local and state tobacco control programs. Under existing law, the department funds the Kick It California program, which is a tobacco cessation program.

Existing law, the California Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003, provides for the licensure by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration of manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, importers, and retailers of cigarette or tobacco products that are engaged in business in California.

The act authorizes the department to suspend or revoke a retailer’s license or impose a civil penalty for a violation of the act’s provisions and requires all moneys collected under the act to be deposited in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Compliance Fund to be available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified uses. Existing law requires a retailer to conspicuously display its license to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products at each retail location in a manner visible to the public.

This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, no later than July 1, 2027, to develop signage for lung cancer screening, which would include, among other things, eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening and the toll-free telephone number of the Kick It California tobacco cessation program. The bill would require the sign to be available at no cost on the department’s internet website. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2028, a retailer, as defined, to conspicuously display the signage at each retail location.

The bill would make a retailer who violates that requirement liable for a civil penalty of $500 for each offense at a retail location and would require those penalties to be deposited into the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Compliance Fund. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.

Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</xhtml:p>"?> MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 22974.6 is added to the Business and Professions Code , to read: 22974.6. (a)

(1) The State Department of Public Health shall, on or before July 1, 2027, develop signage for lung cancer screening. The signage shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (

A) Eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening. (

B) Information on the effectiveness of lung cancer screening. (

C) The toll-free telephone number of the Kick It California tobacco cessation program (Kick It California). (

D) A quick response (QR) code that links to the Kick It California page on the State Department of Public Health’s internet website.

(2) The signage shall not exceed 8.5 inches by inches in size.

(3) The signage shall be available to order at no cost from the State Department of Public Health’s internet website. (

b) Beginning January 1, 2028, a retailer shall conspicuously display the signage described in subdivision (

a) at each retail location. (c)

(1) A retailer who fails to display the signage as required in subdivision (

b) shall be liable for a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense at a retail location.

(2) Upon discovery by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration that a retailer failed to display the signage at a retail location as required in subdivision (b), the department shall issue the civil penalty imposed in paragraph (1) in accordance with the procedures applicable to the civil penalty authorized under

Section 22974.5. (

d) A retailer shall not be subject to

Section 22974.7, 22980.3, or for a violation of subdivision (b). (

e) Civil penalties collected pursuant to this

section shall be deposited into the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Compliance Fund created pursuant to

Section 22990. <caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:BPC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'DIVISION'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'8.6.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'CHAPTER'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'2.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bcaml%3ANum%3D'22974.5.'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SECTION" xlink:type="locator">Section 22974.5 of the <caml:DocName>Business and Professions Code</caml:DocName> is amended to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawSection id="id_E3FE569C-9D26-450F-8D1A-BFD57AD46EBE"><caml:Num>22974.5.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_DFF81AB5-7D8C-4AFA-BA24-23E6B1878E47"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>(a)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A retailer who fails to display a license as required in

Section shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, be liable for a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500).</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(b)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A retailer who fails to display the signage as required in subdivision (

b) of

Section 22980.7 shall, in addition to any other applicable penalty, be liable for a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500).</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection><caml:BillSection id="id_F7F4F442-073C-420D-B08D-6C457BA9A7D1"><caml:Num>SEC. 2.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_ADDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:BPC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2F%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bcaml%3ANum%3D'22980.7'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SECTION" xlink:type="locator">Section 22980.7 is added to the <caml:DocName>Business and Professions Code</caml:DocName>, to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawSection id="id_77A66A1D-5C0A-4872-9533-299A3310FF3D"><caml:Num>22980.7.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_BE5F1F63-B037-402B-999B-62925A552645"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>(a)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The State Department of Public Health shall, on or before July 1, 2027, develop signage for lung cancer screening.

The signage shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Information on the effectiveness of lung cancer screening.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(3)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The toll-free telephone number of the Kick It California tobacco cessation program (Kick It California).</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A quick response (QR) code that links to the Kick It California page on the department’s internet website.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(b)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Beginning January 1, 2028, a retailer engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes or tobacco products shall prominently display the signage described in this subdivision in every retail location of the retailer.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection><caml:BillSection id="id_0EC21AE4-5F37-4DA1-BA9E-6188E262FDC1"><caml:Num>SEC. 3.</caml:Num><caml:Content><xhtml:p>No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to

Section of

Article XIII<xhtml:span class="ThinSpace"/>B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of

Section of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of

Section of

Article XIII<xhtml:span class="ThinSpace"/>B of the California Constitution.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:BillSection>"?>