California Call to Action! Oppose SB 140

[JustJulie]

SB 140 will be heard in the Committee on Governmental Organization on Wednesday, July 8th at 1:30 PM.

Oppose SB 140 - Send an Email​

Please take action now by sending a fully-editable, pre-written email to members of the committee. Please note: if you are not a resident of a district represented by a member of the committee you will be sending a message your assembly member only.

If passed, SB 140 would, among other things:

• Define vapor products as “tobacco products”
• Prohibit vaping where smoking is currently banned
• Prohibit vaping in vapor shops
• Prohibit vaping in some private residences, group homes, and transitional housing

For those living in districts not represented by a member of the Governmental Organization Committee, please take a moment to contact the committee to politely express your opposition to SB 140 - Welcome to the Committee on Governmental Organization | Committee on Governmental Organization

For updates and other opportunities to take action, please follow NorCal SFATA.

CASAA: California Call to Action! Oppose SB 140.

 

[Katya]

Done! Thanks, Julie!

 

[azb8496]

Good luck .... you're going to need it. And remember, inaction is an action.

 

[Uma]

Received the typical "I'm too busy, gimme a call" routine. Will call when phone reception works.

 

[pennysmalls]

The hearing for SB 140 will be live at 1:30 Pacific time. Once you click on the link look for the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee listed on the upcoming events.

LIVE Webcast - California Politics, News, Video and More | The California Channel : California Politics, News, Video and More | The California Channel

 

[nicnik]

The hearing for SB 140 will be live at 1:30 Pacific time. Once you click on the link look for the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee listed on the upcoming events.

LIVE Webcast - California Politics, News, Video and More | The California Channel : California Politics, News, Video and More | The California Channel

We were just told a bunch of lies about nicotine, including that it is only found in tobacco - nowhere else. Hazmat suggestion for spills, implying that if an ecig leaks, call in the the pros to clean it up. Many other lies about vaping, so far.

This "ORAGANIZATION" committee was seven minutes late, BTW.

 

[DC2]

I didn't get a Call to Action?
Or did I get one awhile ago and forgot that I already did it?

 

[nicnik]

John Oliver's Jeff Organization (somethin like that) opposes this bill? Possible support from liberals (I'm making assumptions about Oliver's audience). Good news.

 

[Katya]

I didn't get a Call to Action?
Or did I get one awhile ago and forgot that I already did it?

I didn't get one either. Don't know why...

 

[Katya]

Hazmat suggestion for spills, implying that if an ecig leaks, call in the the pros to clean it up.

Hazmat is only needed when you break a new CFL (made-in-China energy-saving light bulb with mercury)--sold everywhere in CA... No age restrictions, no child-proof packaging.

Cleaning Up a Broken CFL | Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) | US EPA

 

[nicnik]

So, Senator Leno is angry that he couldn't get everything he wanted, and announces he's taking the ball home and won't allow playing with it anymore, while his colleague consoles him with a comment about what awful treatment this is of poor Sen. Leno.

All of his sponsors that he said would remove their support if the bill doesn't define vaping products as tobacco products (the usual players, ACS, ALA etc., and others, including police organizations and their well-knnown expertise regarding tobacco, and others who seem to know more about what is tobacco than biologists, God, and people with common sense), might now cut their donations a bit because he didn't get the complete job done. Anyway, Leno's partners in deceit in the assembly are joining him in his 'no compromise or I quit' stance

Then, next up was a bill that got quickly approved, that seems to relax a targeted small part of the restrictions on alcohol advertising, but I might have misunderstood.

 

[nicnik]

Thanks to all the people who showed up to express their opposition. The "me toos" in opposition seemed to out-number those in support by a lot.

 

[squee]

Woo!

Sen. Leno drops e-cigarette bill that was gutted in Assembly - LA Times

 

[pennysmalls]

I so bad wanted to watch this today but had to pick my nephew up in Chicago. I hope this vid will be viewable still, I want to see the blow by blow action from today. So glad this was defeated!

 

[nicnik]

I so bad wanted to watch this today but had to pick my nephew up in Chicago. I hope this vid will be viewable still, I want to see the blow by blow action from today. So glad this was defeated!

Senator Leno told the Senator who proposed the vote that passed (the one removing the first added ammendment),
(EDIT: Correction - the one retaining the first ammendment)
that he'd send him the video, since he was late and missed some of the testimony. That, and the fact that I watched a recording of a previous session that was posted online earlier in the year, lead me to believe it will be posted.

You'll see some big lies told by the bad guys, about why they were so intolerant of removing that ammendment, which is the one that attempted to ammend nature itself, and would've opened the door to calling anything unwanted by anybody "a tobacco product".

 

[pennysmalls]

Just watched it nicnik, and wow was Leno upset lol! I skipped past his intro and everything else he had to say. There is not one thing that he could say that I haven't heard a thousand times over so I saved myself that headache. I'm loving me some Senator Perea. He was a fresh breath of air with his calm and reasoning manner. And those "me too's" are always so important and there were so many! Californians rocked it today, thank god!

 

[JimScotty0]

LOS ANGELES & SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA) today issued the following statement on Senate Bill 140 (SB 140), a measure introduced by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), following his withdrawal of the legislation after the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee voted to adopt amendments that were objectionable to the author:

SFATA Issues Statement on Withdrawal of California SB 140 | Business Wire