BILL NUMBER: AB 1828	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 20, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 25, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bill Campbell
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aroner, Bates, Daucher, Harman,
Leach, Maddox, and Robert Pacheco)
   (Coauthor:  Senator Ackerman)

                        JANUARY 22, 2002

   An act to add Section 383c to the Penal Code, relating to crime.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1828, Bill Campbell.  Halal food.
   Existing law provides that every person who, with intent to
defraud, sells any meat or meat preparations falsely representing
them to be kosher or prepared in compliance with Hebrew orthodox
religious requirements, or who fails to indicate that both kosher and
nonkosher meat is for sale in the same place of business, as
specified, is punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more
than $600, or imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 30 days
nor more than 90 days, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
   This bill would provide that a person who, with intent to defraud,
sells any meat or meat preparations falsely representing them to be
halal or prepared in compliance with Islamic religious requirements,
or who fails to indicate that both halal and nonhalal meat is for
sale in the same place of business, as specified, is punishable by
the same imprisonment and fine.  By creating a new crime, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
  The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state.  Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 383c is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   383c.  Every person who with intent to defraud, sells or exposes
for sale any meat or meat preparations, and falsely represents the
same to be halal, whether such meat or meat preparations be raw or
prepared for human consumption, or as having been prepared under and
from a product or products sanctioned by the Islamic religious
requirements; or falsely represents any food product, or the contents
of any package or container, to be so constituted and prepared, by
having or permitting to be inscribed thereon the words "halal" in any
language; or sells or exposes for sale in the same place of business
both halal and nonhalal meat or meat preparations, either raw or
prepared for human consumption, who fails to indicate on his window
signs in all display advertising in block letters at least four
inches in height "halal and nonhalal meats sold here;" or who exposes
for sale in any show window or place of business as both halal and
nonhalal meat preparations, either raw or prepared for human
consumption, who fails to display over each kind of meat or meat
preparation so exposed a sign in block letters at least four inches
in height, reading "halal meat" or "nonhalal meat" as the case may
be; or sells or exposes for sale in any restaurant or any other place
where food products are sold for consumption on the premises, any
article of food or food preparations and falsely represents the same
to be halal, or as having been prepared in accordance with the
Islamic religious requirements; or sells or exposes for sale in such
restaurant, or such other place, both halal and nonhalal food or food
preparations for consumption on the premises, not prepared in
accordance with the Islamic ritual, or not sanctioned by Islamic
religious requirements, and who fails to display on his window signs
in all display advertising, in block letters at least four inches in
height "halal and nonhalal food served here" is guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be punishable by a fine of
not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than six hundred
dollars ($600), or imprisonment in a county jail of not less than 30
days, nor more than 90 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
   The word "halal" is here defined to mean a strict compliance with
every Islamic law and custom pertaining and relating to the killing
of the animal or fowl from which the meat is taken or extracted, the
dressing, treatment and preparation thereof for human consumption,
and the manufacture, production, treatment, and preparation of such
other food or foods in connection wherewith Islamic laws and customs
obtain and to the use of tools, implements, vessels, utensils,
dishes, and containers that are used in connection with the killing
of such animals and fowls and the dressing, preparation, production,
manufacture, and treatment of such meats and other products, foods,
and food stuffs.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.