BILL NUMBER: AB 1204	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dickinson

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 3312 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to fairs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1204, as introduced, Dickinson. Fairs: California Exposition
and State Fair Authority.
   Existing law provides that the governing body of the California
Exposition and State Fair shall be an 11 member board of directors
who shall be residents of California and appointed, as specified.
Existing law provides that 9 directors shall be appointed by the
Governor with the consent of the Senate and that the directors
appointed by the Governor shall have general knowledge of, interest
in, and expertise in one or more specified areas, including, among
others, fair management, the arts, education, and youth. Existing law
provides that the directors shall be appointed for 4 year terms.
   This bill would provide that every director appointed pursuant to
those provisions whose term has expired shall continue to discharge
the duties of his or her office until a successor is appointed and
qualified. The bill would additionally add public relations and
marketing to the list of topics of which the Governor's appointees
are required to have knowledge of, interest in, and expertise in.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3312 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:
   3312.  (a) The governing body of the California Exposition and
State Fair shall be an 11-member board of directors. The directors
shall be residents of California and shall be appointed as follows:
   (1) Nine directors shall be appointed by the Governor with the
consent of the Senate. The directors appointed by the Governor shall
have general knowledge of, interest in, and expertise in one or more
of the following areas: fair management, city or county government,
 horseracing   horse racing  , the arts,
exhibiting, the media,  public relations,  education, youth,
commerce and commercial products of the state, industry and
industrial products of the state, agricultural production and forest
industries, the entertainment industry, livestock and poultry,
sports, recreation, fisheries, oceanography, organized labor, and
finance  , marketing,  and banking.
   (A) Five of the directors appointed by the Governor shall be
knowledgeable in the production, processing, or marketing of
agricultural products and may be appointed from lists of nominees
submitted for consideration to the Governor from California
agricultural organizations, district agricultural associations, and
county and citrus fruit fairs.
   (B) One of the directors appointed by the Governor shall be a
public member.
   (C) Three of the directors appointed by the Governor shall be
representative, to the extent possible, of areas of knowledge,
interest, and expertise enumerated in paragraph (1).
   (2) One director shall be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly
and one director shall be appointed by the Senate Committee on
Rules. These persons shall be representative, to the extent possible,
of areas of knowledge, interest, and expertise enumerated in
paragraph (1).
   (b) The directors shall be appointed for four-year terms. The
appointing authority shall appoint directors to fill vacancies which
occur during a term, and the appointments shall be for the remainder
of the unexpired term.  Of the four vacancies that will occur
on December 31, 1986, two of the vacancies shall be filled by
persons appointed pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a).
 
   (c) Notwithstanding Section 1774 of the Government Code or any
other provision of law, every director appointed pursuant to this
section whose term has expired shall continue to discharge the duties
of his or her office until a successor is appointed and qualified.