AB 2888, as introduced, Committee on Agriculture. State-supported fairs: food and fiber exhibits.
Existing law requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to expend up to $100,000 in any fiscal year for an exhibit or exhibits at a state-supported fair that demonstrates the process of production and use of food and fiber and to annually provide for a conference of fair judges to aid the Department of Food and Agriculture in prescribing regulations for the judging of exhibits and for the premiums paid for all classes, sections, and types of exhibits, and authorizes the secretary to expend up to $15,000 in any fiscal year for these purposes.
This bill would instead authorize rather than require the secretary to perform the above-specified functions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 4401.5 of the Food and Agricultural Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) Thebegin delete director shallend deletebegin insert secretary mayend insert expend an amount
2not to exceed a total of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
3in any fiscal year for any exhibit or exhibits located on any
4state-supported fair demonstrating, in a creative and innovative
5manner, the process of production and use of food and fiber from
6the producer to the consumer in this state.
7(b) Thebegin delete director shallend deletebegin insert
secretary mayend insert annually provide for a
8conference of fair judges to aid the department in prescribing
9regulations adopted pursuant to Section 4501. Thebegin delete directorend delete
10begin insert secretaryend insert may expend up to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) in
11any fiscal year forbegin delete suchend deletebegin insert theseend insert purposes.
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