BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 3, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
SB 1270
(Galgiani) - As Introduced February 18, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill extends the sunset from January 1, 2017 to January 1,
2022, for the California Department of Food and Agriculture
(CDFA) to establish a fee schedule to recover the reasonable
costs associated with animal health services that do not provide
a benefit beyond the payer.
FISCAL EFFECT
No additional state costs.
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COMMENTS:
Purpose and Background. CDFA's Animal Health Branch (AHB)
focuses on protecting livestock populations from devastating
diseases that require statewide coordination. AHB investigates
known or suspected cases of specified diseases, conducts animal
disease surveillance and traceability programs, and prepares and
executes emergency response planning. Examples of disease
surveillance programs include tuberculosis, brucellosis, bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), and avian diseases.
AHB also permits and monitors over 2 million animals entering
California annually.
A trailer bill to the Budget Act of 2011, Chapter 133, Statutes
of 2011 (AB 120), authorized CDFA to establish a fee schedule in
order to recover costs associated with animal health services
that do not provide a benefit beyond the payer, among other
provisions. This includes a service that is required for a
personal matter, is not related to a suspected animal health
disease outbreak, and there are no private veterinarians
certified by CDFA to perform the service. The author notes that
such instances may occur in remote, where there are no private
veterinarians certified by CDFA to do specific regulated work,
such as test cattle for tuberculosis or administer a vaccine for
brucellosis. In these rare instances, the only veterinary
service available in the area is a CDFA field veterinarian.
The service fee may not exceed $500 for a particular license,
permit, registration, product, or service. This authority is set
to sunset on January 1, 2017.
Analysis Prepared by:Luke Reidenbach / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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