BILL NUMBER: SB 465	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Correa

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 12603 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to packaging and labeling.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 465, as introduced, Correa. Fair Packaging and Labeling Act.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture
and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to,
enforcement of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. The act prohibits
persons from distributing any packaged commodity that is not in
conformity with prescribed packaging and labeling requirements.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12603 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   12603.   No   A  person subject to the
prohibition in Section 12602 shall  not  distribute any
packaged commodity unless it is in conformity with regulations that
shall be established by the director that shall provide:
   (a) The commodity shall bear a label specifying the identity of
the commodity and the name and place of business of the manufacturer,
packer, or distributor.
   (b) The net quantity of contents (in terms of weight or mass,
measure, numerical count, or time) shall be separately and accurately
stated in a uniform location upon the principal display panel of
that label, using the most appropriate units of both the customary
inch-pound system of measure, and except as provided in subdivisions
(c) and (d), the SI (Systeme International d'Unites) metric system.
   (c) On a random package labeled in terms of pounds and decimal
fractions of the pound, the statement may be carried out to not more
than three decimal places and is not required to, but may include a
statement in terms of the SI metric system carried out to not more
than three decimal places.
   (d) The requirements of subdivision (b) concerning labeling using
the metric system do not apply to nonconsumer packages, foods that
are packaged at the retail store level, or to the sale or
distribution of products whose labels have been printed prior to
February 14, 1994.
   (e) This section shall become operative on February 14, 1994.