Graduate medical education: funding.

The California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016, an initiative measure approved as Proposition 56 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, increases taxes imposed on distributors of cigarettes and tobacco products and requires all revenues to be deposited into the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. That act allocates a specified amount of those revenues to provide funding to, among other entities and purposes, the University of California in the amount of $40,000,000 annually for the purpose and goal of increasing the number of primary care and emergency physicians trained in California, as specified. The act authorizes the Legislature to amend the provision relating to the allocation of these revenues to further the purposes of the act with a 23 vote of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would instead provide that funding to the University of California to be administered by a California nonprofit public benefit corporation for that purpose and goal.