Bill Text: CA AB2669 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Milk: stabilization and marketing plans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-24 - Read first time. [AB2669 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB2669-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2669 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Eggman FEBRUARY 21, 2014 An act to amend Section 62062 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to milk. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2669, as introduced, Eggman. Milk: stabilization and marketing plans. Existing law provides for stabilization and marketing plans pursuant to which the Secretary of Food and Agriculture establishes minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producers for market milk. Existing law requires the secretary to take into consideration any relevant economic factors, as prescribed, in establishing those prices for milk. This bill would make nonsubtantive changes in those provisions establishing milk prices. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 62062 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read: 62062. (a) Each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions whereby thedirectorsecretary establishes minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producers for market milk inthe variousall classes. Thedirectorsecretary shall establish the prices by designating them in the plan, or by adopting methods or formulas in the plan whereby the prices can be determined, or any combination of the foregoing. If thedirectorsecretary directly designates prices in the plan, the prices shall be in reasonable and sound economic relationship with the national value of manufactured milk products. If thedirectorsecretary adopts methods or formulas in the plan for designation of prices, the methods or formulas shall be reasonably calculated to result in prices that are in a reasonable and sound economic relationship with the national value of manufactured milk products.In(b) In establishing the prices, thedirectorsecretary shall take into consideration any relevant economic factors, including, but not limited to, the following:(a)(1) The reasonableness and economic soundness of market milk prices for all classes, giving consideration to the combined income from those class prices, in relation to the cost of producing and marketing market milk for all purposes, including manufacturing purposes. In determining the costs, thedirectorsecretary shall consider the cost of management and a reasonable return on necessary capital investment.(b)(2) That prices established pursuant to this section shallinsureensure an adequate and continuous supply, in relation to demand, of pure, fresh, wholesome market milk for all purposes, including manufacturing purposes, at prices to consumerswhichthat , when considered with relevant economic criteria, are fair and reasonable.(c)(3) That prices, including the prices of components of milk, established by thedirectorsecretary for the various classes of market milk bear a reasonable and sound economic relationship to each other.In(c) In establishing the prices, thedirectorsecretary shall also take into consideration all the purposes, policies, and standards contained in Sections 61801, 61802, 61805, 61806, 61807, 62076, and 62077.