Bill Text: CA AB861 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 861 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Africanized honey bees.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-07-31 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 143, Statutes of 2017. [AB861 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 861

Introduced by Assembly Member Dahle
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Eggman)

February 16, 2017

An act to amend Section 29320 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to bees.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 861, as introduced, Dahle. Africanized honey bees.

The Apiary Protection Act authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, in cooperation with the Regents of the University of California, to approve programs statewide to train, on a voluntary basis, beekeepers in the maintenance of colonies free of Africanized honey bees.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 29320 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read:

29320.

The secretary, in cooperation with the Regents of the University of California, may approve programs statewide to train, on a voluntary basis, beekeepers in the maintenance of bee colonies free of Africanized honey bees.