AB 199, as amended, 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.
Thisbegin insert bill would remove supplies grown or partially grown in the state from this requirement, and produce from the definition of supplies. Theend insert
bill wouldbegin delete encourageend deletebegin insert requireend insert all California state-owned or state-runbegin delete institutions and allend deletebegin insert
institutions, exceptend insert public universities, public schools,begin delete andend deletebegin insert orend insert school districtsbegin delete in Californiaend deletebegin insert,end insert to purchase agricultural products grown in Californiabegin delete to the extent possible.end deletebegin insert from a California company before those that are grown outside of the state as long as the bid or price is equal to or less than the bid or price for agricultural products produced outside the state. The bill would encourage all public universities, public
schools, and schools in California to purchase agricultural products grown in California to the greatest extent possible.end insert
Vote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 58595) is
2added to Part 1 of Division 21 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
3to read:
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begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert All California state-owned or state-runbegin delete institutions begin insert institutions, exceptend insert public universities, public schools,
8and allend deletebegin delete andend delete
9begin insert or end insert schoolbegin delete districts in California are encouraged toend deletebegin insert
districts, shallend insert
10 purchase agricultural products grown in Californiabegin delete to the extent begin insert from a California company before those that are grown
11possibleend delete
12outside the state as long as the bid or priceend insertbegin insert is equal to or less than
13the bid or price end insertbegin insertfor agricultural products produced outside the
14stateend insert.
15(b) All public universities, public schools, and school districts
16in California are encouraged to
purchase agricultural products
17grown in California to the greatest extent possible.
begin insertSection 4330 of the end insertbegin insertGovernment Codeend insertbegin insert is amended to
19read:end insert
As used in this article, “supplies” includes goods, wares,
21merchandise,begin delete manufactures, and produceend deletebegin insert and manufacturesend insert.
begin insertSection 4331 of the end insertbegin insertGovernment Codeend insertbegin insert is amended to
23read:end insert
Price, fitness and quality being equal, any body, officer,
25or other person charged with the purchase, or permitted or
26authorized to purchase supplies for the use of thebegin delete Stateend deletebegin insert stateend insert, or of
27any of its institutions or offices, or for the use of any county or
28city shall always prefer suppliesbegin delete grown, manufactured,end delete
29begin insert manufacturedend insert or produced in thebegin delete Stateend deletebegin insert
stateend insert, and shall next prefer
P3 1supplies partiallybegin delete manufactured, grown,end deletebegin insert manufacturedend insert or produced
2in thebegin delete Stateend deletebegin insert stateend insert.
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