The California Department of Cannabis Control recently announced updated proposed cannabis regulations. These include: Readoption of Emergency Regulations. The Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) is proposing to readopt its emergency regulations to consolidate the commercial cannabis regulations. The readoption process will allow the emergency regulations to remain in place while DCC completes the regular rulemaking…
Read More »The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) this week, finding that approximately 2.55 million U.S. middle and high school students report current (past 30-day) use of a tobacco product in 2021. The NYTS was conducted among U.S. middle and high school students…
Read More »The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report, “Premium Cigars: Patterns of Use, Marketing, and Health Effects.” The report found that overall cigar consumption has increased every year since the late 1990s, with a total increase of 145 percent from 1998 to 2020. The report details 13 findings, 24 conclusions, and…
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is currently soliciting nominations for the 2021 and 2022 Beverlee A. Myers Award for Excellence in Public Health. This award recognizes the contributions of public health and health care services professionals in improving the health status of everyone who calls California home and the millions who visit the…
Read More »The University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Francisco (UCLA-UCSF) ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN) recently announced a grant funding opportunity entitled, “Preventing and Responding to Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)-Associated Health Conditions and Toxic Stress in Clinics through Community Engagement (PRACTICE).” The statewide grant seeks to strengthen partnerships to screen…
Read More »The Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) will host the first ITUP Policy Forum of 2022 on March 30 from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. The Policy Forum will convene experts for state-level discussions related to health policy in California and will feature constructive dialogue, problem-solving, and identification of creative policy solutions to today’s pressing health…
Read More »Policy committees of the California State Senate and Assembly have begun to schedule hearings for new bills introduced in the second half of the 2021-22 Legislative Session. Over the coming weeks, policy committees are anticipated to maintain busy hearing schedules as legislators consider and amend new bill ideas on a wide range of issues and…
Read More »This week, California State Senate and Assembly Budget Subcommittees continued a steady pace of committee hearings, assessing proposed investments offered by the Newsom Administration through the Governor’s January Budget. Below, we highlight a few hearings of most interest to CHEAC Members: Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 3 Hears Stakeholder Proposals, Including California Can’t…
Read More »On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee, announced a series of changes to COVID-19 masking guidance. The state leaders, pointing to declining case rates and hospitalizations throughout the West, updated indoor mask policies and mask guidance for K-12 schools. Specifically, in California, as of March…
Read More »On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order updating the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to align the standard with the state’s new indoor masking guidance. Executive Order N-5-22 specifies that as of March 1, 2022, masks will no longer be required for unvaccinated employees indoors but…
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