BILL NUMBER: AB 264	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dahle

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2015

   An act to amend Section 56109 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to farm products.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 264, as introduced, Dahle. Farm products: produce dealers:
seeds.
   Existing law requires that any person engaged in the business of
buying, receiving on consignment, soliciting for sale on commission,
or negotiating the sale of farm products from a licensee or producer
for resale, to be licensed. Existing law, for purposes of those
provisions, defines "farm product" to include every agricultural,
horticultural, viticultural, and vegetable product of the soil,
poultry and poultry products, livestock products and livestock not
for immediate slaughter, bees and apiary products, hay, dried beans,
honey, and cut flowers, but excludes from that definition any timber
or timber product, flower or agricultural or vegetable seed not
purchased from a producer, any milk product that is subject to
specified licensing requirements, any aquacultural product, or cattle
sold to any person who is bonded under a specified federal law.
   This bill would revise that definition to exclude flower,
agricultural, or vegetable seeds from the definition of farm
products, rather than only those that have not been purchased from a
producer.
   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 56109 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:
   56109.  "Farm product" includes every agricultural, horticultural,
viticultural, and vegetable product of the soil, poultry and poultry
products, livestock products and livestock not for immediate
slaughter, bees and apiary products, hay, dried beans, honey, and cut
flowers. It does not, however, include any timber or timber product,
flower or agricultural or vegetable seed  not purchased from
a producer  , any milk product  which 
 that  is subject to the licensing and bonding provisions of
Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) of Part 3 of Division 21,
any aquacultural product, or cattle sold to any person who is bonded
under the federal Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 U.S.C. Sec.
181, et seq.).