Bill Text: CA SB780 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Department of Food and Agriculture: oversight: commercial feed, feed additives, and drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 634, Statutes of 2023. [SB780 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB780-Enrolled.html

Enrolled  September 13, 2023
Passed  IN  Senate  September 11, 2023
Passed  IN  Assembly  August 17, 2023
Amended  IN  Assembly  June 15, 2023
Amended  IN  Senate  March 21, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 780


Introduced by Senator Alvarado-Gil

February 17, 2023


An act to add Section 14902.1 to the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to food and agriculture.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 780, Alvarado-Gil. Department of Food and Agriculture: oversight: commercial feed, feed additives, and drugs.
Existing law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture under the control of the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. Existing law regulates the manufacture, distribution, and labeling of commercial feed and requires the secretary to enforce those provisions and the regulations adopted pursuant to those provisions. Existing law requires the secretary to establish, by regulation, good manufacturing practices, hazard analysis, and preventive control measures as are reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of certain provisions regulating commercial feed, including verification and validation activities for all commercial feed and additives, including medicated feed premixes and medicated feeds, as specified.
Existing law requires the department to continue to be the primary regulatory agency over medicated feed, as defined, responsible for regulating medicated feed quality assurance and medicated feed safety, and enforcing any handling and inspecting requirements that are imposed on medicated feed suppliers, as provided.
This bill would require any commercial feed, feed additive, or drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration that is fed to livestock to be under the oversight of the department as the primary state regulatory agency, including, but not limited to, products that make environmental and health claims. The bill would not construe the above-mentioned provision to limit certain authority of the State Air Resources Board.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 14902.1 is added to the Food and Agricultural Code, immediately following Section 14902, to read:

14902.1.
 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any commercial feed, feed additive, or drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration that is fed to livestock shall be under the oversight of the department as the primary state regulatory agency, including, but not limited to, products that make environmental and health claims.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the State Air Resources Board under Section 39730.7 of the Health and Safety Code.

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