Bill Text: CA AB2730 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Alternative milk marketing agreements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-25 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). [AB2730 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2730	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Agriculture (Assembly Members Eggman
(Chair), Olsen (Vice Chair), Atkins, Dahle, Pan, Quirk, and Yamada)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2014

   An act to add Article 7 (commencing with Section 9190) to Chapter
1 of Part 1 of Division 5 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating
to animals.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2730, as introduced, Committee on Agriculture. Animal disease
planning.
   Existing law provides for the regulation of pest control and
diseased animals. Existing law requires the Department of Food and
Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of invasive pests, as
defined, that have a reasonable likelihood of entering the state and
for which a detection, exclusion, eradication, control, or management
action by the state might be appropriate. Existing law requires the
department, based on available funding, to develop and maintain a
written plan on the most appropriate options for detection,
exclusion, eradication, control, or management of high-priority
invasive pests on the list. Existing law requires the department to
consult with certain state and federal agencies and departments and
others in the scientific and research community in the preparation of
the plan.
   This bill would require the department to develop and maintain a
similar list of animal diseases by July 1, 2015, and, to the extent
funding is available, require the department to develop and maintain
a similar written plan on the most appropriate options for detection,
exclusion, eradication, control, or management of high-priority
animal diseases on the list.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article 7 (commencing with Section 9190) is added to
Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 5 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
to read:

      Article 7.  Animal Disease Planning


   9190.  The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:
   (a) Global travel, global trade, and climate change introduce
invasive animals, plants, insects, and plant and animal diseases to
California.
   (b) Humans are susceptible to the transfer of animal diseases
because 85 percent of all human diseases are zoonotic, meaning the
disease is communicable from animals to humans.
   9191.  On or before July 1, 2015, the department shall develop and
maintain a list of animal diseases that have a reasonable likelihood
of entering California for which a detection, exclusion,
eradication, control, or management action by the state might be
appropriate.
   9192.  The department, to the extend funding is available, shall
develop and maintain a written plan on the most appropriate options
for detection, exclusion, eradication, control, or management of the
higher priority animal diseases on the list prepared pursuant to
Section 9191. In determining which animal diseases are the higher
priority and in developing the most appropriate options for
detection, exclusion, eradication, control, or management, the
department shall consult with the United States Department of
Agriculture, the University of California, other state agencies and
departments, and others in the scientific and research community.
   9193.  In implementing this article, the department may undertake
or contract for scientific research with the University of California
or other institutions of higher learning.