BILL NUMBER: AB 2782	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Chiu and Wood)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 104655 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to nutrition.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2782, as introduced, Bloom. Healthy food.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to
establish and implement the 5 A Day--For Better Health program to
promote public awareness of the need to eat more fruits and
vegetables in order to improve health and prevent major chronic
diseases. Existing law provides that nothing shall operate to
prohibit contributions to the program by certain marketing
organizations and commissions subject to specified provisions.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
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 104655 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   104655.  Notwithstanding any other  provision of 
law, nothing shall operate to prohibit contributions to the program
created pursuant to this article by organizations and commissions
subject to Division 22 (commencing with Section 64001)
  63901)  of the Food and Agricultural Code.