Bill Text: CA AB1247 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sales and use taxes: exemption: organic input material.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1247 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1247	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Irwin

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add and repeal Section 14502.2 of the Food and
Agricultural Code, relating to fertilizer.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1247, as introduced, Irwin. Fertilizer: organic input
materials.
   Existing law requires the labeling and registration, as specified,
of fertilizing materials, including organic input materials. Organic
input materials are commercial fertilizers, agricultural minerals,
auxiliary soil and plant substances, specialty fertilizers, or soil
amendments, excluding pesticides, that are to be used in organic crop
and food production and that comply with specified national
standards.
   Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties,
collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale
of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism relative
to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
   This bill would require the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, on
or before June 30, 2016, to provide to the Legislature a plan to
expand the Department of Food and Agriculture's promotion of organic
input materials for the production of food and fiber. The bill would
express the Legislature's intent that the secretary's plan and the
department's promotion of organic input materials be funded, all or
in part, by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The bill would make
findings and declarations regarding the ways in which agricultural
practices, including the application of fertilizer, remove carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares both of the
following:
   (a) A variety of agricultural practices that enhance carbon
storage or sequestration include conservation tillage, cover
cropping, crop rotation, and application of compost and fertilizer to
agricultural and range lands.
   (b) Improved soil and water quality, decreased nutrient loss,
reduced soil erosion, increased water conservation, and greater crop
production may result from increasing the amount of carbon dioxide
stored in agricultural lands, which in turn removes that carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere.
  SEC. 2.  Section 14502.2 is added to the Food and Agricultural
Code, to read:
   14502.2.  (a) On or before June 30, 2016, the secretary shall
provide to the Legislature a plan to expand the department's
promotion of organic input materials for the production of food and
fiber.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to fund all or part of
these requirements, including the secretary's plan and the department'
s promotion of organic input materials, with the Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Fund.
   (c) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

   (2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
section is repealed on June 30, 2020.