BILL NUMBER: AB 604	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  17
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  APRIL 28, 2010
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  APRIL 28, 2010
	PASSED THE SENATE  APRIL 15, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 24, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members De Leon and Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act relating to pest control, making an appropriation therefor,
and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 604, De Leon. Pest control: citrus disease prevention.
   Existing law creates in the Department of Food and Agriculture the
California Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Committee, composed as
specified, with specified powers and duties, including, among
others, the authority to develop, subject to the approval of the
Secretary of Food and Agriculture, a statewide citrus-specific pest
and disease workplan that includes informational programs to educate
and train residential owners of citrus fruit, local communities,
groups, and individuals on the prevention of pests, and diseases and
their vectors, specific to citrus and programs for surveying,
detecting, analyzing, and treating citrus pests and diseases.
Existing law authorizes the imposition of a monthly assessment on
citrus producers, as provided, for specified related purposes, and
requires the assessment to be remitted to the department and
deposited into the Citrus Disease Management Account in the
Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, which funds in that account
are available upon appropriation by the Legislature.
   This bill would provide that the department is authorized to spend
any funds collected pursuant to, and for the purposes of, the above
provisions through June 30, 2010, thereby making an appropriation.
   This 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.  The Department of Food and Agriculture is authorized to
spend any funds collected pursuant to, and for the purposes
described in, Article 2 (commencing with Section 5911) of Chapter 9
of Part 1 of Division 4 of the Food and Agricultural Code through
June 30, 2010.
  SEC. 2.  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 for the California Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention
Committee and the Department of Food and Agriculture to fulfill their
statutory obligations to develop and implement a workplan to deal
with the introduction of Asian citrus psyllids, a tiny insect that
often carries citrus green disease, a pathogen that has destroyed
groves in Florida and wiped out much of the citrus industries in
China, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Brazil, at the earliest
possible time, it is necessary for this act to take effect
immediately.