Bill Text: CA AB1163 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Minors: power of attorney to care for a minor child.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-28 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1163 Detail]
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three one million dollars ($3,000,000) ($1,000,000) is transferred from the General Fund to the Buy California Account established in Section 58750 of the Food and Agricultural Code in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund
to encourage the promotion and consumption of California grown crops by a Buy California Program marketing agreement authorized pursuant to Section 58750 of the Food and Agricultural Code.
Bill Title: Minors: power of attorney to care for a minor child.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-28 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1163 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1163-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill | No. 1163 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bigelow, Gallagher, Gonzalez Fletcher, Gray, Jones-Sawyer, and Limón) |
February 17, 2017 |
An act relating to agriculture, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1163, as amended, Irwin.
Buy California Program: funding.
Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, headed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state. Existing law establishes within the department a public and private collaboration known as the “Buy California Program” to encourage consumer nutritional and food awareness and foster purchases of high-quality California agricultural products. Existing law authorizes the secretary to issue and make effective a marketing agreement, as specified, promoting the program. Existing law creates the continuously appropriated Buy California Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund for those purposes.
This bill would transfer $3,000,000
$1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Buy California Account to encourage the promotion and consumption of California grown crops by a Buy California Program marketing agreement, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require that the expenditure of these moneys be made only if the each $1 of these moneys are both fully is matched by $2 from nonstate sources and used to promote California grown products.
sources.
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Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(a) The Buy California Program marketing agreement, authorized by Section 58750 of the Food and Agricultural Code and initiated in 2001, has provided ongoing growth to the sales and consumption of California grown food items, specifically California grown specialty crops.
(b) The Buy California Program has embarked on consumer awareness studies indicating the following:
(1) Fifty-nine percent of California consumers purchase agricultural products specifically
because they are from the state.
(2) Virtually every California consumer (99 percent) and national consumer (97 percent) agree that purchasing “CA GROWN” products supports the economy of the United States.
(3) Almost two-thirds (63 percent) of California consumers report that they are “very likely” to purchase a “CA GROWN” product over another seemingly identical product if the products are priced the same.
(4) Among California consumers, 69 percent are willing, and 26 percent are unwilling, to pay a premium for “CA GROWN” products.
(5) Eighty-six percent of California consumers and 54 percent of national consumers report that “CA GROWN” products matter to
them.
SEC. 2.
(a) The sum of(b) An expenditure of these moneys shall be made only if each one dollar ($1) of these moneys are fully is matched by two dollars ($2) from nonstate sources, including private and federal sources.