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Big Soda scored a major victory on Thursday as California passed a law that bans local sugar taxes through 2030 in the most populous U.S. state, where cities including Berkeley have approved such ...
In July 2014, U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, proposed a national soda tax. [191] In November 2014, voters in San Francisco and Berkeley, California voted on soda tax ballot measures. [192] The measure was approved in Berkeley [193] and received 55% of the vote in San Francisco, but was short of the needed 2/3 supermajority. [194]
Soda consumption is blamed as being a cause of heart disease, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and some types of cancer in adults, and it's easy to see why, Government guidelines encourage Americans to ...
In 2008 Bill Monning ran for and won the California State District 27 Assembly seat being vacated by termed out John Laird. [12] When asked in an interview with the National Lawyers Guild about why he decided to run for the Assembly in 2008, Monning cited California's structural budget limitations saying California was, "only one of three ...
The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Senate Bill 1), also known as the "Gas Tax", is a legislative bill in the U.S. state of California that was passed on April 6, 2017 with the aim of repairing roads, improving traffic safety, and expanding public transit systems across the state.
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[10] The center has also published research concluding that were California Assembly Bill 669 to be passed, that "85 percent [of the money raised] or $1.4 billion, would be returned to counties, in proportion to their population, to pay for education and children’s health programs." [11]
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