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Article: Charge for Harm Alliance Launches Campaign to Pass AB 1019.
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- Biotech Week
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- November 4, 2009
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The Charge for Harm Alliance - a diverse coalition of treatment and prevention providers, public health advocates, consumers advocates, public safety groups, youth and labor - launched a campaign today to pass an alcohol mitigation fee in California in 2010 (see also Charge for Harm Alliance).
Over 100 people rallied with the new Alliance in South Central Los Angeles to advocate for the passage of AB 1019, the Alcohol-Related Services Program. Simultaneously, Supervisor Bevan Dufty of San Francisco held a hearing on a resolution asking San Francisco to support AB 1019. A new Web site loaded with information on the bill and alcohol harm was launched at ...