California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 629

Introduced by Assembly Member Perea

February 24, 2015

An act to amend Sections 62070 and 62071 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to market milk.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 629, as introduced, Perea. Market milk.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to formulate stabilization and marketing plans that establish the prices to be paid by milk handlers for specified classes of market milk. Existing law provides that a stabilization and marketing plan may provide for, among other things, maximum charges for plant processing and transportation services, and minimum charges for the various services performed by a nonprofit cooperative association regarding class 1 market milk.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions regarding maximum and minimum charges, including updating a cross-reference.

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 62070 of the Food and Agricultural Code
is amended to read:

62070.  

Each stabilization and marketing plan may further
provide for maximum charges for plant processing and
transportation service on the market milk or market milk
components begin delete which end delete begin insert that end insert are transported to the area where sold. The
stabilization and marketing plan may enumerate the applicable
maximum charges, and may establish individual charges for each
function enumerated. In establishing any begin delete such end delete maximum charges
for begin delete such end delete transportation services, the begin delete director end delete begin insert secretary end insert shall base
begin delete such end delete begin insert the end insert maximum charges upon the rates begin delete which end delete begin insert that end insert are charged
for actual or reasonably similar services by highway carriers, as
the term “highway carriers” is defined in begin delete Secton 3511 end delete begin insert Section
737.3 end insert of the Public Utilities Code.

SEC. 2.  

Section 62071 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:

62071.  

Each stabilization and marketing plan may provide for
minimum charges for the various services performed or rendered
by a nonprofit cooperative association begin delete in end delete begin insert with end insert respect to class 1
market milk sold or delivered to another handler. Handler services
include component testing for payment purposes, quality control,
producer payroll, begin insert and end insert weighing and sampling of bulk market milk.
Each begin delete stablization end delete begin insert stabilization end insert and marketing plan may also
include, but not be limited to, minimum charges for the handling
of intermittent or irregular deliveries of market milk and plant
standby services. The stabilization and marketing plan may
enumerate applicable minimum charges and establish individual
charges for each service enumerated or, in the alternative, the
begin delete director end delete begin insert secretary end insert may establish one or more minimum charges
covering one or more of the separate handler services.