BILL NUMBER: AB 2367	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 51798 to the Education Code, relating to
school gardens.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2367, as amended, Bonilla.  Instructional school
  School  gardens: sale of  surplus
 produce.
   Existing law establishes the Instructional School Gardens Program
for the promotion, creation, and support of instructional school
gardens. Under existing law, a school district, charter school, or
county office of education may apply to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction for funding for a 3-year grant in order to develop and
maintain an instructional school garden. Existing law limits the
grants to a maximum of $2,500 per schoolsite, except as provided.
   This bill would authorize a school district, charter school, or
county office of education to sell  surplus  produce
grown in  an instructional   a  school
garden  , regardless of whether the school participates in the
Instructional School Gardens Program  .
   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 51798 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   51798.  A school district, charter school, or county office of
education that is operating  an instructional  
a  school garden  program pursuant to this article
 may sell any  surplus  produce grown
 as part of the program   in the school garden,
regardless of whether the school participates in the  
Instructional School Gardens Program  .