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AB 886: Nicotine: cessation.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2025-04-22

Current Status:

Failed

(2026-02-02: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law establishes the Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee (TEROC) to advise the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education with respect to policy development, integration, and evaluation of tobacco education programs funded under specified provisions.

This bill would require TEROC to develop and oversee a statewide community education plan to translate, disseminate, and apply research findings from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program related to teenage vaping and nicotine cessation. The bill would require TEROC to develop a plan to identify and share best practices on effective, developmentally appropriate nicotine cessation strategies for youth, as specified. The bill would also require the State Department of Public Health to establish a pilot program in the County of Los Angeles, the County of Sacramento, and the County of Santa Clara to, among other things, implement targeted intervention programs for youth under 21 years of age who are addicted to nicotine and to prioritize developmentally appropriate cessation strategies over traditional nicotine replacement therapies.

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. Existing law declares that smoking is the single most important source of preventable disease and premature death in California, and it is the intent of the Legislature to require the department, along with the State Department of Education, to cooperatively and individually conduct activities directed at the prevention of tobacco use and tobacco-related diseases.This bill would require the department to establish and administer a grant program to support research and other efforts toward effective teenage vaping and nicotine cessation strategies. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center, if it chooses to participate, to fund, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, grants to support specified efforts, including education and outreach to schools, health care providers, and community organizations. The bill would authorize grants to be awarded to qualifying entities, including colleges or universities, or to an individual conducting research in California.

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