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| Bill | Tobacco products: minimum legal age. | Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, establishes various requirements for distributors and retailers relating to tobacco sales to minors. Existing law prohibits the furnishing of tobacco products to, and the purchase of tobacco products by, a person under 18 years of age. Under existing law, a person is prohibited from making various promotional or advertising offers of smokeless tobacco products without taking actions to ensure that the product is not available to persons under 18 years of age. Existing law also requires the State Department of Public Health to conduct random, onsite sting inspections of tobacco product retailers with the assistance of persons under 18 years of age. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20152016 Special Session 2 | SB 7 | California SB 7 (20152016 Special Session 2) |
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California SB 7 (20152016 Special Session 2) — Tobacco products: minimum legal age.
Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, establishes various requirements for distributors and retailers relating to tobacco sales to minors. Existing law prohibits the furnishing of tobacco products to, and the purchase of tobacco products by, a person under 18 years of age. Under existing law, a person is prohibited from making various promotional or advertising offers of smokeless tobacco products without taking actions to ensure that the product is not available to persons under 18 years of age. Existing law also requires the State Department of Public Health to conduct random, onsite sting inspections of tobacco product retailers with the assistance of persons under 18 years of age.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 07/16/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 02/29/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 03/02/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 05/04/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB7 (committee substitute) — source
- 04/19/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Unfinished Business SB7 Hernandez Concurrence — 26–10 (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–3 (pass) · upper
- Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
- SB 7 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD Move Previous Question By CALDERON — 49–26 (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — 25–11 (pass) · upper
- SB 7 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD Motion to Appeal the Decision of the Chair By BAKER — 49–26 (pass) · lower
- SB 7 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD — 49–25 (pass) · lower
- SB 7 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD Motion to Adjourn By GALLAGHER — 26–49 (fail) · lower
Sponsors
- Hernandez — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
- Wood — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2015-07-16 Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S.
introduction, referral-committee, reading-1 - 2015-07-16 To print.
- 2015-07-17 From printer.
- 2015-08-13 Set for hearing August 19.
- 2015-08-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 28.) (August 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage - 2015-08-21 Set for hearing August 24.
- 2015-08-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 37.) (August 24).
committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage - 2015-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-2, reading-1 - 2015-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 51.) Ordered to the Assembly.
reading-3, passage, reading-1 - 2015-08-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1 - 2016-02-29 Referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S.
referral-committee - 2016-02-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S.
referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1 - 2016-03-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S.
referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1 - 2016-03-03 Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
- 2016-03-03 Withdrawn from committee.
- 2016-03-03 Ordered to third reading.
- 2016-03-03 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- 2016-03-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 175.) Ordered to the Senate.
reading-3, passage, reading-1 - 2016-03-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- 2016-03-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 10.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage - 2016-04-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 a.m.
- 2016-05-04 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2016-05-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 8, Statutes of 2015-16 Second Extraordinary Session.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24985125-a910-4b64-a746-2361356d5071. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).