BILL NUMBER: AB 1175	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 13, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bocanegra

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 486 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to cooperative agreements.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1175, as amended, Bocanegra. Food and agriculture: cooperative
agreements: agricultural inspector associates.
   Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to
enter into cooperative agreements with county boards of supervisors
and other specified entities for certain purposes. Existing law
prohibits the secretary from entering into a cooperative agreement
with a county of the first class for agricultural inspector services
if the agreement requires that the county provide year-round services
unless not less than 66% of the agricultural inspector aids 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.
   This bill additionally would prohibit the secretary from entering
into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class for
agricultural inspector services unless not less than  an
unspecified percent   75%  of the agricultural
inspector associates not afforded protections as permanent employees
employed under the cooperative agreement are afforded protections as
permanent employees.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for a county of the first class.
   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 486 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:
   486.  Notwithstanding Section 482, the secretary may not enter
into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class, as
defined in Section  28020   28022  of the
Government Code, for agricultural inspector services  ,  if
the cooperative agreement requires that the county provide year-round
services, unless not less than 66 percent of the agricultural
inspector aides and  ____   not less than 75
 percent of the agricultural inspector associates 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.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances of agricultural inspector
associates in a county of the first class.