Bill Text: CA AB1833 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1833

Introduced

Bill Title: Mushrooms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-24 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. [AB1833 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1833-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1833

Introduced by Assembly Member Addis

January 12, 2024

An act to add Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 112950) to Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1833, as introduced, Addis. Mushrooms.

Existing law makes it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer for sale, give away, or possess olive oil that indicates on its label “California Olive Oil,” or uses similar words to indicate that California is the source of the oil, unless 100% of that oil is derived from olives grown in California.

This bill would similarly make it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer for sale, give away, or possess a mushroom in California, that indicates on the label “California Mushroom,” “California Grown,” or words of similar import that indicate that California is the source of the mushroom, unless 100% of that mushroom is grown in California, and would require the Department of Food and Agriculture to assess a civil penalty against any person violating that prohibition, as specified.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 112950) is added to Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

CHAPTER 9.5. Mushrooms

112950.

(a) If a mushroom is produced, processed, sold, offered for sale, given away, or possessed in California, that indicates on its label “California Mushroom,” “California Grown,” or uses words of similar import that indicate that California is the source of the mushroom, 100 percent of that mushroom shall be grown in California.

(b) For purposes of this section, “grown” includes mushrooms that are inoculated, incubated, and harvested in California.

112955.

The Department of Food and Agriculture shall assess a civil penalty against a person violating this chapter in an amount not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the first violation, not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the second violation, and not less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the third or any subsequent violations.