{"id":129712,"date":"2022-06-24T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-alcohol-justice-public-health-safety-kicked-to-the-curb-again-as-california-assembly-go-committee-approves-dangerous-4-a-m-bar-bill-experiment\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:30:02","slug":"alcohol-justice-la-salud-y-la-seguridad-publicas-vuelven-a-ser-ignoradas-mientras-el-comite-go-de-la-asamblea-de-california-aprueba-el-peligroso-experimento-del-proyecto-de-ley-del-cierre-de-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/alcohol-justice-la-salud-y-la-seguridad-publicas-vuelven-a-ser-ignoradas-mientras-el-comite-go-de-la-asamblea-de-california-aprueba-el-peligroso-experimento-del-proyecto-de-ley-del-cierre-de-bare\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Justice: Public Health &amp; Safety Kicked to the Curb Again as California Assembly &#8220;GO&#8221; Committee Approves Dangerous 4 a.m. Bar Bill Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prngen2{\nPADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: BOTTOM; BORDER-TOP:black 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT:black 1pt; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 1pt; BORDER-LEFT:black 1pt\n}\n.prnml4{\nMARGIN-TOP:0em; MARGIN-RIGHT:0em; MARGIN-BOTTOM:0em; MARGIN-LEFT:0.33em !IMPORTANT\n}\n.prnbcc{\nBORDER-COLLAPSE: COLLAPSE; BORDER-TOP:1pt  black; BORDER-RIGHT:1pt  black; BORDER-BOTTOM:1pt  black; BORDER-LEFT:1pt  black\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><b><i>SB 930 Author Senator Wiener Continues to Push &#8220;Junk Science&#8221; Over Solid Peer-Reviewed Data to Support Alcohol Sales <span class=\"xn-chron\">Between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN FRANCISCO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 23, 2022<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=1826568364&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Falcoholjustice.org%2F&amp;a=Alcohol+Justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcohol Justice<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=3462346791&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Falcoholpolicyalliance.org%2F&amp;a=California+Alcohol+Policy+Alliance+(CAPA)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA)<\/a> condemned a one-person majority vote of the California State Assembly Governmental Organization Committee (GO) yesterday to allow SB 930 to proceed. The &#8220;gut &amp; amend&#8221; bill is Senator <span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Wiener&#8217;s<\/span> 4<sup>th<\/sup> attempt to disrupt the protections of uniform <span class=\"xn-chron\">2 a.m.<\/span> last call in <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> by launching a 7-city pilot program to generate nightlife alcohol sales profits at the expense of public health and safety. All of his previous attempts have failed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg8a57left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg8a57left\" title=\"Alcohol Justice logo\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Alcohol Justice logo\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p><i>&#8220;In the face of 40 years of unimpeachable, compelling evidence and passionate opposition by some committee members that increasing hours of alcohol sales would increase harms, a one-vote majority of this committee negligently sided with the author, turning a blind eye to the reality of more early-morning alcohol-related violence, ER visits, impaired driving, and traffic chaos,&#8221; <\/i>stated <span class=\"xn-person\">Cruz Avila<\/span>, Executive Director \/ CEO of Alcohol Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The bill&#8217;s author stumbled again through a predictable weak defense of his gift to late night alcohol-related businesses citing meaningless, cherry-picked, disparate, numbers, and a faulty theory that people make bad decisions all day long, and not just after leaving a bar in the middle of the night possibly fatigued and inebriated.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, SB 930 <i>will <\/i>spread alcohol overconsumption, loss of life, injury, and nuisance across the state. Last call times\u2014what the scientific literature calls &#8220;trading hours&#8221;\u2014are a backbone of maintaining alcohol as a safe and legal product. <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=87275089&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecommunityguide.org%2F&amp;a=The+Community+Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Community Guide<\/a>, a CDC-led handbook of public health best practices compiled in part by experts at the <span class=\"xn-org\">University of California, Los Angeles<\/span>, identifies maintaining existing last call times as one of the 10 key policies for reducing the harms from reckless drinking and from alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CDC, <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> currently suffers 11,000 alcohol-related deaths per year at a cost of <span class=\"xn-money\">$34 billion<\/span> with direct government costs of <span class=\"xn-money\">$18 billion<\/span>. The only benefit of selling alcohol <span class=\"xn-chron\">between 2 and 4 a.m.<\/span> will be greater profits to bar, restaurant, and club owners in the party zones the bill will create in 7 cities. While the public and all levels of government will be forced to continue to cover the costs of cleaning up the mess that follows.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the author&#8217;s continued mischaracterization of SB 930 as a &#8216;local control&#8217; measure, there is consensus among opponents that there is no such thing as local control in alcohol policy and that the harm from one city&#8217;s decision to change last-call times will <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=1699151658&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alcoholjustice.org%2Fimages%2Freports%2Freports-full%2Fhighcost4am-PRINT.pdf&amp;a=%22splash%22+over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;splash&#8221; over<\/a> to every surrounding community.<\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" class=\"prnbcc\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>How they voted:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>Ayes <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>Noes<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Aguiar-Curry<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Bigelow<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Berman<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Lackey<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Bryan<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Ramos<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Gipson<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Smith<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Jones-Sawyer<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Lee<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\"><b>NVR (not voting)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Low<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Cooper<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Mathis<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Megan Dahle<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Robert Rivas<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Daly<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Blanca Rubio<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Davies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Santiago, Wood<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Eduardo Garcia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"prngen2\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<p class=\"prnml4\"><span class=\"prnews_span\">Quirk-Silva<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The bill must now pass through the Assembly Appropriations Committee and then an Assembly floor vote, before it heads back to the <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> Senate for two committee hearings and a Senate floor vote. All of this must happen before the end of August. The legislature goes out for a summer break on <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 1<\/span>, returning <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 1<\/span>. Alcohol Justice and CAPA encourage the public to continue to oppose the bill.<\/p>\n<p><b>TAKE ACTION to STOP SB 930: <\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=2507712819&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F39xULWc&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F39xULWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/39xULWc<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<b>or Text JUSTICE to 313131<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=3313128926&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Falcoholjustice.org%2Fimages%2Freports%2Freports-full%2FLATE-NIGHT-THREAT-final.pdf&amp;a=The+Late+Night+Threat%3A+Science%2C+Harms%2C+and+Costs+of+Extending+Bar+Service+Hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Late Night Threat: Science, Harms, and Costs of Extending Bar Service Hours<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=1267781586&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alcoholjustice.org%2Fimages%2Freports%2Freports-full%2Fhighcost4am-PRINT.pdf&amp;a=The+High+Cost+of+the+4+A.M.+Bar+Bill%3A+A+Cost-Benefit+Analysis+of+Extended+Alcohol+Trading+Hours+in+Los+Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The High Cost of the <span class=\"xn-chron\">4 A.M.<\/span> Bar Bill: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Extended Alcohol Trading Hours in <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>TAKE ACTION to STOP SB 930: <\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3576546-1&amp;h=2507712819&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F39xULWc&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F39xULWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/39xULWc<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<b>or Text JUSTICE to 313131<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT:<br \/><\/b>Michael Scippa\u00a0415 548-0492<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Mayra Jimenez<\/span> 323 683-4687<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgce1cleft\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; 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