Bill Text: CA AB1038 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Milk products: California Dairy Future Task Force.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-09-12 - Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Gray. [AB1038 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1038	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan
    (   Coauthor:  
Assembly Member   Medina   )

    (   Coauthors:  
Senators   Correa,   
 Roth,     and Yee
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add  Section 2159.7 to   Article 10
(commencing with Section 590) to Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 1
of  the  Elections   Food and Agricultural
 Code, relating to  elections   milk
products  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1038, as amended, Pan.  Voter registration: paid
registration activities.   California Dairy Future Task
Force.  
   Existing law empowers the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to
formulate stabilization and marketing plans that establish the prices
to be paid by milk handlers for specified classes of market milk.
Existing law requires every handler subject to the provisions of a
stabilization and marketing plan that purchases market milk from
producers to pay a specified assessment to the secretary for deposit
into the Department of Food and Agricultural Fund, with revenues to
be used for certain purposes.  
   This bill would require the California Dairy Future Task Force
previously established by the secretary be continued in existence in
order to evaluate, hold workshops, and make recommendations on
various issues relating to the specific purpose of establishing a
stable economic environment for California dairy producers and
processors. The bill would provide that funding for the task force,
not to exceed $500,000, shall be made available from assessment
revenues paid to the secretary by handlers subject to a stabilization
and marketing plan, subject to appropriation by the Legislature. The
bill would also make legislative findings and declarations. 

   Existing law authorizes any person, company, or other organization
that complies with specified conditions to agree to pay money or
other valuable consideration, on a per-affidavit basis or otherwise,
to any person who assists another person to register to vote by
receiving the completed affidavit of registration.  
   This bill would, notwithstanding existing law, prohibit a person
from offering to pay or paying money or other valuable consideration
to another person, either directly or indirectly, to assist another
person to register to vote under a certain political party by
receiving the completed affidavit of registration. A violation of
this prohibition would be a misdemeanor.  
   By defining a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program.  
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes   no  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    (a)     The
Legislature finds and declares both of the following:  
   (1) The California dairy industry has been confronted with
numerous significant challenges in the past several years that have
resulted in dairy producers losing revenue and equity, with many
forced to exit the industry, while processors have faced heightened
competition and transportation costs, and other economic challenges.
 
   (2) A concentrated focus on these challenges is essential so that
the California dairy industry may participate successfully in
domestic and international markets to the benefit of dairy producers
and processors alike.  
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Secretary of Food
and Agriculture actively engage a California Dairy Future Task Force
to develop recommendations intended to best position both dairy
producers and processors, as well as consumers, to achieve the goals
of long-term success and sustainability in a market that continues to
evolve beyond the scope of the current regulatory system with the
addition of new products and markets.  
   (c) It is the further intent of the Legislature that these
recommendations address current statutory and regulatory impediments
to achieve these goals. 
  SEC. 2.    Article 10 (commencing with Section 590) is
added to Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the   Food
and Agricultural Code   , to read:  

      Article 10.  California Dairy Future Task Force


   590.  (a) The California Dairy Future Task Force previously
established by the secretary and consisting of dairy producers,
processors, and cooperatives shall be continued in existence for the
specific purpose of developing a stable economic environment for
California dairy producers and processors.
   (b) The California Dairy Future Task Force shall do all of the
following:
   (1) Evaluate all of the following issues and any other issues it
determines to be relevant:
   (A) Market-based and other alternative pricing models.
   (B) Pricing mechanisms that appropriately share risk and value
between producers and processors, promote competition, and encourage
innovation.
   (C) Impacts of milk pricing decisions on small cheese
manufacturers and other manufacturers that do not participate in the
whey markets, and whether revenues from their products should be
included in the milk pool, because whey products are derived from the
milk delivered by producers.
   (D) Whether California's regulated milk pricing system has kept
pace with the rapidly changing global marketplace.
   (E) Whether milk is directed to the highest and best use.
   (F) Adequacy of relevant statutes and regulations.
   (2) Hold workshops and solicit input from the dairy industry and
related businesses.
   (3) Make recommendations to the secretary and the Legislature no
later than July 1, 2014, regarding the addition, modification, or
repeal of existing statutes and regulations for all classes of milk.
   (c) Funding for the California Dairy Future Task Force, in an
amount not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), shall
be made available from the funds deposited into the Department of
Food and Agricultural Fund pursuant to Article 14 (commencing with
Section 62211) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division 21, subject to
appropriation by the Legislature.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 2159.7 is added to the
Elections Code, to read:
   2159.7.  Notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not offer
to pay or pay money or other valuable consideration to another
person, either directly or indirectly, to assist another person to
register to vote under a certain political party by receiving the
completed affidavit of registration. Any person who violates this
section is guilty of a misdemeanor.  
  SEC. 2.    No reimbursement is required by this
act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a
new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or
changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of
Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a
crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution.