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6.H. - Page 5 of 16 young Americans who use e -cigarettes regularly. Eighty percent of young people who have ever used tobacco started with a flavored product. SB 793 prohibits a tobacco retailer, or any of the tobacco retailer's agents or employees, from selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell or offer for sale a flavored tobacco product or a tobacco product flavor enhancer. Specifically, this Bill: • Prohibits a tobacco retailer, or any of the tobacco retailer's agents or employees, from selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell or offer for sale a flavored tobacco product or a tobacco product flavor enhancer. • Deems a tobacco product as a flavored tobacco product if a manufacturer or any of the manufacturer's agents or employees, in the course of his or her agency or employment, has made a statement or claim directed to consumers or to the public that the tobacco product has or produces a "characterizing flavor," as defined, including, but not limited to, text, color, images, or all, on the product's labeling or packaging that are used to explicitly or implicitly communicate that the tobacco product has a characterizing flavor. • Deems it an infraction if a tobacco retailer, or agent or employee of a tobacco retailer, violates the provisions of this bill, and imposes a fine of $250 for each violation. • Specifies that the provisions in this bill do not preempt or prohibit the adoption of local standards that impose a greater restriction on the access of tobacco products than the provisions in this bill. Requires the greater restriction on the access of tobacco products to prevail in the case of inconsistency between the provisions of this bill and local standards. Bill Status: The Bill has been set for a hearing on June 1, 2020 as of May 26, 2020. Redwood City Legislative Platform SB 793 (Hill) falls in line with the "Children and Youth" section of the Redwood City adopted legislative platform. • Specifically: "Support legislation that promotes youth wellbeing and school safety." Background SB 1441 (McGuire): In 2014, the Legislature enacted the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge Collections Act, which required sellers of prepaid wireless telecommunications services to collect a fee measured as a percentage of the sales price, known as the Mobile Telephony Services (MTS) fee (AB 1717, Perea). The first component of the MTS fee is the prepaid MTS surcharge, which adds together fees charged by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to fund the state's universal services fund among other CPUC charges, plus surcharges on telecommunications services determined by the Office of Emergency Services Page 5 of 8 City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org 314