BILL NUMBER: AB 1400	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the
Economy (Medina (Chair), Daly, Fong, Fox, Hueso, and V. Manuel Pérez)

                        MARCH 11, 2013

   An act to amend Section 110200 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to export documents.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1400, as introduced, Committee on Jobs, Economic Development,
and the Economy. Export documents: expiration.
   The Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law authorizes a person who
ships to another state or country a food, drug, device, or cosmetic
manufactured or produced in this state to request that the State
Department of Public Health issue an export document to reference the
shipment. Under existing law, an export document expires 180 days
after its issue date.
   This bill would instead require that an export document expire one
year after its issue date.
   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 110200 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   110200.  (a)  Each export document issued by the department shall
do all of the following:
   (1)  Identify either or both of the following:
   (A)  The name and place of business of the manufacturer or
producer of the food, drug, device, or cosmetic.
   (B)  The name and place of business of the distributor of the
food, drug, device, or cosmetic.
   (2)  Identify the food, drug, device, or cosmetic being shipped.
   (3)  Identify the state or country to which the food, drug,
device, or cosmetic is being shipped.
   (4)  Identify the approximate date of shipment.
   (5)  Describe the department's authority over the food, drug,
device, or cosmetic to be shipped and its manufacturer or producer.
   (6)  State that the department does not object to the sale of the
food, drug, device, or cosmetic in this state or the shipment of the
food, drug, device, or cosmetic to any other state or country.
   (b)  Each export document issued by the department may, in the
department's sole discretion, include additional statements requested
by the person who requested the export document.
   (c)  Each export document issued by the department shall be issued
by the Chief of the Food and Drug Branch of the department, or his
or her designee. The chief or his or her designee may issue an export
document prepared by the department or by the requesting person.
   (d)  The export document shall expire  180 days 
 one year  after its issue date.