Bill Text: CA AB3013 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 3013 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Agriculture: commercial feed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-24 - Read first time. [AB3013 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB3013-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3013

Introduced by Assembly Member Cooper

February 21, 2020

An act to amend Section 15061 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to agriculture.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3013, as introduced, Cooper. Agriculture: commercial feed.

Existing law establishes an inspection tonnage tax for commercial feed, as specified, with a maximum rate of $0.25 per ton. The funds collected are deposited into the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, and are continuously appropriated for purposes of provisions regulating commercial feed.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision relating to inspection tonnage tax rates.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 15061 of the Food and Agricultural Code, as amended by Section 3 of Chapter 306 of the Statutes of 2019, is amended to read:

15061.

(a) An inspection tonnage tax at the maximum rate of twenty-five cents ($0.25) per ton of commercial feed sold, except whole grains, and whole hays when unmixed, shall be paid to the secretary by any person who distributes commercial feed to a consumer-buyer in this state. The distributor shall also pay an inspection tonnage tax for purchased commercial feed fed to the distributor’s own animals.

(b) The secretary may, based upon a finding and recommendation of the board, determine the specific rate necessary to provide the revenue needed to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The secretary and the board shall not exceed the maximum tonnage rate established by this section. ~~Setting~~ The setting of the tonnage tax rate shall not be subject to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.