BILL NUMBER: AB 1896	CHAPTERED  09/21/04

	CHAPTER  631
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 21, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 21, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 25, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 21, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 11, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jerome Horton

                        FEBRUARY 5, 2004

   An act to amend Section 486 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to agricultural inspectors, making an appropriation
therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1896, Jerome Horton.  Agricultural inspectors.
   Existing law prohibits the Secretary of Food and Agriculture from
entering into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first
class unless, among other things, all agricultural inspector aides
performing work under the cooperative agreement are afforded
protections as permanent employees, as specified.
   This bill would revise that requirement to require 33% of the
aides to be afforded the same protections as permanent employees for
the 2004-05 fiscal year  and 66% for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 fiscal
years.
   The bill would appropriate $380,000 from the General Fund to the
Department of Food and Agriculture for the 2004-05 fiscal year for
the agricultural plant and animal pest and disease prevention
activities of Los Angeles County required by law.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 486 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:
   486.  The secretary may not enter into a cooperative agreement
with a county of the first class for agricultural inspector services
if the cooperative agreement requires that year-round services be
provided, unless the following percentages of agricultural inspector
aides not afforded protections as permanent employees employed under
the cooperative agreement are afforded protections as permanent
employees under the county's civil service or other personnel system:

   (a) For the 2004-05 fiscal year, 33 percent of the agricultural
inspector aides not afforded protections as permanent employees
employed by the county during the 2003-04 fiscal year providing
year-round services.
   (b) For the 2005-06 fiscal year, not less than 66 percent of the
agricultural inspectors not afforded protections as permanent
employees employed by the county during the 2003-04 fiscal year
providing year-round services.
   (c) For the 2006-07 fiscal year, not less than 66 percent of the
agricultural inspectors not afforded protections as permanent
employees employed by the county during the 2003-04 fiscal year
providing year-round services.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of three hundred eighty thousand dollars
($380,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
Department of Food and Agriculture for the 2004-05 fiscal year for
the agricultural plant and animal pest and disease prevention
activities of Los Angeles County required by Section 486 of the Food
and Agricultural Code.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to protect California's agricultural community and
economy by ensuring uninterrupted agricultural inspection services by
the most qualified and trained agricultural inspector aides, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.