BILL NUMBER: AB 914	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 77965 to the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to cut flowers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 914, as introduced, Atkins. Cut Flower Commission: market
information.
   Existing law creates the California Cut Flower Commission,
composed of 13 members, with specified powers and duties, including,
but not limited to, conducting, and contracting with others to
conduct, production research, including the study, analysis,
accumulation, and dissemination of information obtained from that
research.
   This bill would require the commission to annually specify the
types and varieties of cut flowers for which it is collecting, from
participating producers, market price information based on sales, and
would require dissemination of that information to all interested
persons. The bill would require that the identity of each producer
reporting the information and the information reported be kept
confidential and not be made public under any circumstances. The
commission would be authorized to disclose information that gives
industry totals, averages, and other similar data.
   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.  Section 77965 is added to the Food and Agricultural
Code, to read:
   77965.  (a) To prevent unfair trade practices which are
detrimental to California's cut flower industry, including, but not
limited to, deception and misinformation, the commission shall
annually specify the types and varieties of cut flowers for which it
shall collect from producers who participate, and disseminate to all
interested persons, market price information based on sales which
have occurred.
   (b) The identity of each producer reporting the information and
the information reported pursuant to this section and Section 6254 of
the Government Code shall be kept confidential and not made public
under any circumstances. Information that gives industry totals,
averages, and other similar data may be disclosed by the commission.
   (c) The procedure for the collection and dissemination of the
information specified in this section shall be adopted by the
commission and approved by the secretary.