SB 961, as introduced, McGuire. Secretary of Food and Agriculture: fiscal duties: collection.
Existing law sets forth various fiscal powers and duties of the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and authorizes the secretary to remove from the Department of Agriculture’s records an amount due pursuant to the provisions of the Food and Agricultural Code if the amount is $5 or less and the secretary either finds that the amount is too small to justify the cost of its collection, or believes that collection is improbable.
This bill would increase the maximum amount from $5 to $25, and would also make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 284 of the Food and Agricultural Code
2 is amended to read:
If thebegin delete directorend deletebegin insert secretaryend insert finds thatbegin delete anyend deletebegin insert anend insert amount not in
4excess ofbegin delete fiveend deletebegin insert twenty-fiveend insert dollarsbegin delete ($5) whichend deletebegin insert
($25) thatend insert
is due
5pursuant to this code isbegin delete soend deletebegin insert tooend insert smallbegin delete as notend delete to justify the cost of its
6collection or believes that its collection is improbable,begin delete heend deletebegin insert the
7secretaryend insert may remove the amountbegin delete whichend deletebegin insert thatend insert is due from the
P2 1records of thebegin delete department. Heend deletebegin insert
department, andend insert shallbegin delete not, thereafter,end delete
2begin insert notend insert be held accountable for its collection.
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