BILL NUMBER: AB 1470	CHAPTERED  09/07/00

	CHAPTER   309
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 7, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 2, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 22, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 20, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cardoza

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act relating to food banks, making an appropriation therefor,
and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1470, Cardoza.  Food banks.
   Federal law generally creates the Emergency Food Assistance
Program, which is run locally by the State Department of Social
Services to distribute commodities donated by the United States
Department of Agriculture and fresh and packaged produce donated by
California's food growers, packers, and processors.  Existing
California law creates the Emergency Food and Assistance Advisory
Board to assist in operating this program.
   This bill would appropriate $575,000 from the General Fund to the
Department of Social Services for allocation to the Emergency Food
and Assistance Program, in augmentation to specified funds
appropriated in the Budget Act of 2000, to help mitigate the impact
of the Tri-Valley Growers Association bankruptcy and for the
Emergency Food and Assistance Program to continue to accept,
transport, and distribute United States Department of Agriculture
commodities and other donated food.
   This bill would provide that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The sum of five hundred seventy-five thousand dollars
($575,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
Department of Social Services for allocation to the Emergency Food
Assistance Program.  This appropriation shall be in augmentation of
Item 5180-001-0001 of the Budget Act of 2000.  Three hundred thousand
dollars ($300,000) shall be used to accept fresh and canned produce
to mitigate the impact of the Tri-Valley Growers Association
bankruptcy, and two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000)
shall be used by the Emergency Food Assistance Program to continue to
accept, transport, and distribute United States Department of
Agriculture commodities and other donated food.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure that millions of dollars worth of donated foods
for needy families in California are distributed and received, it is
necessary for this act to take effect immediately.