Bill Text: CA AB2436 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Cattle: inspections: fees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-06 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [AB2436 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2436-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2436
| Introduced by Assembly Member Alanis |
February 13, 2024 |
An act to amend Sections 21283, 21283.5, 21285, 21288, 21288.5, 21290.5, 21563, and 21563.5 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to cattle, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2436, as introduced, Alanis.
Cattle: inspections: fees.
(1) Existing law requires cattle to be inspected before being moved or transported under certain circumstances, including before cattle are moved out of the state. Existing law provides that inspection of cattle consists of the examination of the cattle for all brands and marks, and, in the case of unbranded cattle, for natural marks, sex, and breed, and includes the issuance of a certificate of inspection. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to impose a prescribed service charge for each site at which an inspection is performed. Existing law also establishes various inspection fees per head of cattle to supplement this site-based charge, generally of $1.50 per animal, with certain exceptions.
This bill would increase various inspection fees per head of cattle to $1.60, with
certain exceptions, as specified.
(2) Existing law authorizes any person who receives cattle from any cattle sale market, upon request and payment of a fee of $0.70 per head before accepting delivery of any cattle from that market, to have a reinspection of the cattle.
This bill would increase that fee to $0.80 per head of cattle.
(3) Existing law requires that the inspection of carcasses with the hide on and of hides to be made in the same manner as the inspection of cattle, as specified. Under existing law, all brand inspection fees for hides or carcasses are due and payable at the time of the inspection. Existing law generally requires a brand inspection fee to be paid at the point of inspection in the amount of $2 for each carcass or hide that is inspected and $2 for each carcass or hide inspected originating
in those counties or geographical areas where a point-of-origin inspection is maintained.
This bill would increase these fees to $2.10 for each carcass or hide that is inspected.
(4) Existing law requires all of the above-described fees to be deposited into the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, which is continuously appropriated, as prescribed.
By increasing the amount of existing fees, the revenue from which is continuously appropriated, the bill would make an appropriation.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 21283 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read:21283.
(a) Unless otherwise provided in this article, inspection fees shall be paid at the point of inspection.(b) The fee for inspection is one dollar and fifty sixty cents ($1.50) ($1.60) for each animal that is inspected, except as follows:
(1) The fee for inspection at a registered feedlot, as defined in Section 20015, is seventy-five
eight-five cents ($0.75) ($0.85) for each animal that is inspected.
(2) The fee for inspecting an animal that originated in another state and was shipped into this state for feeding direct to a registered feedlot is fifty sixty cents ($0.50) ($0.60) for each animal that is inspected.
(3) The fee for inspecting an animal that was inspected at a posted stockyard, or posted saleyard, in this state, and shipped direct to a registered feedlot, is fifty sixty cents ($0.50) ($0.60) for each animal that is inspected.
