Bill Text: CA AB404 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Department of Food and Agriculture: reporting requirements: certified organic operations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-02-12 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB404 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB404-Amended.html
small and mid-scale farmers and farming operations, including, but not limited to, reporting requirements related to the process of transitioning to organic farming and obtaining organic certification. certified organic operations, including, but not limited to, reporting requirements related to organic certification pursuant to the federal Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. Sec. 6501 et seq.), reporting requirements related to registration with the department pursuant to Section 46013.1, and reporting
requirements related to registration with the State Department of Public Health pursuant to Sections 110875 and 110958 of the Health and Safety Code.
Bill Title: Department of Food and Agriculture: reporting requirements: certified organic operations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-02-12 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB404 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB404-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
May 18, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 404
| Introduced by Assembly Member Connolly |
February 02, 2023 |
An act to add and repeal Section 413 of to the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to food and agriculture.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 404, as amended, Connolly.
Department of Food and Agriculture: reporting requirements: small and mid-scale farmers. certified organic operations.
Existing law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture and charges it with various duties and obligations. law, the California Organic Food and Farming Act, requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, county agricultural commissioners, and the State Public Health Officer of the State Department of Public Health to enforce state and federal laws governing the production, labeling, and marketing of organic products, as specified. Existing federal law establishes the National Organic Program, which requires operations that produce or handle organic agricultural products to comply with federal organic standards and be certified by a certifying agent, as specified.
This bill would require the department Department of Food and Agriculture, contingent upon an appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act or another statute, to evaluate duplicative reporting requirements that affect small and mid-scale farmers and farming certified organic operations, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2025, one year after the date that the Legislature makes an
appropriation for this purpose, to submit a report to the Legislature, including suggestions to amend or remove unnecessary reporting requirements in order to relieve regulatory burdens on small and mid-scale farmers and farming
certified organic operations. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 413 is added to the Food and Agricultural Code, to read:413.
(a) The department shall evaluate duplicative reporting requirements that affect(b) On or before January 1, 2025, one year after the date the Legislature makes an appropriation for purposes of this section, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature, including suggestions to amend or remove unnecessary reporting requirements in order to relieve regulatory burdens on small and mid-scale farmers and farming certified organic operations.
(c) The report submitted pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(d)This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed.
(d) For purposes of this section, “certified organic operation” has the same meaning as the term “certified operation,” as defined in Section 46004.1.
(e) The implementation of this section is contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
