BILL NUMBER: AB 629	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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  which 
 that  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  such  maximum
charges for  such  transportation services, the
 director   secretary  shall base 
such   the  maximum charges upon the rates 
which   that  are charged for actual or reasonably
similar services by highway carriers, as the term "highway carriers"
is defined in  Secton 3511   Section 737.3
 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  in   with
 respect to class 1 market milk sold or delivered to another
handler. Handler services include component testing for payment
purposes, quality control, producer payroll,  and  weighing
and sampling of bulk market milk. Each  stablization
  stabilization  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  director
  secretary  may establish one or more minimum
charges covering one or more of the separate handler services.