BILL NUMBER: SB 740	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator McGuire

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 59111 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to agriculture.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 740, as introduced, McGuire. California Marketing Act of 1937:
marketing orders: notice.
   Existing law provides for the California Marketing Act of 1937
governing the marketing of commodities in this state. Under the act,
the Secretary of Food and Agriculture is authorized to issue
marketing orders and enter into marketing agreements, as specified.
Existing law requires, upon the issuance of any order that makes
effective a marketing order or marketing agreement, or any
suspension, amendment, or termination of a marketing order or
marketing agreement, a notice of the issuance to be posted on a
public bulletin board maintained by the secretary in his or her
office. Existing law also requires the secretary to mail a copy of
the notice to specified persons, including a person that files a
written request for the notice, as specified.
   This bill would require the secretary to also post the notice on
the Department of Food and Agriculture's Internet Web site and would
additionally require the secretary to mail a copy of the notice to a
person that files an electronic request for the notice. The bill
would make various nonsubstantive changes.
   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 59111 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:
   59111.   (a)    Upon the issuance of any order
 which   that  makes effective a marketing
order or marketing agreement, or any suspension, amendment, or
termination of a marketing order or marketing agreement, a notice of
the issuance shall be posted on a public bulletin  board
which   board maintained by  the  director
shall maintain   secretary  in his  or her
 office.  The secretary shall also post the same notice of
issuance on the department's Internet Web site.  A marketing
order or marketing agreement, or any suspension, amendment, or
termination of it, shall not become effective until five days after
the date of  such   the  posting  in
the secretary's office or on the department's Internet Web site,
whichever occurs first  . The  director  
secretary  shall also mail a copy of the notice to every person
that is directly affected by the terms of  such 
 the  marketing order or marketing agreement, suspension,
amendment, or termination, whose name and address is on file in the
office of the  director   secretary  , and
to every person that files in the office of the  director
  secretary  a written  or electronic 
request for  such   the  notice. 
   This 
    (b)     This  section  does
  shall  not apply to the termination of any
marketing order or marketing agreement under Section 59087.