AB 199, as introduced, Holden. Institutional purchasers: sale of California produce.
Under existing law, price, fitness, and quality being equal, any body, officer, or other person charged with the purchase, or permitted or authorized to purchase supplies for the use of the state, or of any of its institutions or offices, or for the use of any county or city, is required to always prefer supplies, defined to include produce, that are grown, manufactured, or produced in the state, and is required to next prefer supplies partially manufactured, grown, or produced in the state.
This bill would remove supplies grown or partially grown in the state from this requirement and produce from the definition of supplies. This bill, the Choose California Act, would instead require agricultural products grown, or packed or processed, in California to be purchased by all California state-owned or state-run institutions, except schools or school districts, before out-of-state agricultural products, as specified. This bill would require California public schools and school districts to purchase agricultural products grown in California before those that are grown out-of-state as long as the price does not exceed the lowest bid or price for an out-of-state product.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
2Choose California Act.
Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 58595) is added
4to Division 21 of the Food and Agricultural Code, to read:
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All California state-owned or state-run institutions,
9except schools or school districts, shall purchase agricultural
10products grown in California before those that are grown outside
11the state if the following criteria are met:
12(a) The bids for providing the California grown products or the
13prices quoted for them do not exceed by more than 5 percent the
14lowest bids or prices quoted for products produced outside the
15state.
16(b) If there are no California-grown agricultural products that
17meet the criteria in subdivision (a), then the bid shall go to a
18California company that packs or processes its products in the
19state, as long as the price quoted by the California company does
20not exceed by more than 5 percent the lowest
bid or price quoted
21for out-of-state products.
All California public schools and school districts shall
23purchase agricultural products grown in California before those
24that are grown outside the state as long as the price quoted by the
25California company does not exceed the lowest bid or price quoted
26for an out-of-state product.
Section 4330 of the Government Code is amended to
28read:
As used in this article, “supplies” includes goods, wares,
30merchandise,begin insert andend insert manufacturesbegin delete, and produceend delete.
Section 4331 of the Government Code is amended to
32read:
Price, fitnessbegin insert,end insert and quality being equal, any body, officer,
34or other person charged with the purchase, or permitted or
35authorized to purchase supplies for the use of thebegin delete Stateend deletebegin insert stateend insert, or of
P3 1any of its institutions or offices, or for the use of any county or
2citybegin insert,end insert shall always prefer suppliesbegin delete grown,end delete manufacturedbegin delete,end delete
or produced
3in thebegin delete Stateend deletebegin insert
stateend insert, and shall next prefer supplies partially
4manufacturedbegin delete, grown,end delete or produced in thebegin delete Stateend deletebegin insert stateend insert.
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