AB 1175, as amended, Bocanegra. Food and agriculture: cooperative agreements: agricultural inspector associates.
Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements with county boards of supervisors and other specified entities for certain purposes. Existing law prohibits the secretary from entering into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class for agricultural inspector services if the agreement requires that the county provide year-round services unless not less than 66% of the agricultural inspector aids not afforded protections as permanent employees employed under the cooperative agreement are afforded protections as permanent employees under the county’s civil service or other personnel system.
This bill additionally would prohibit the secretary from entering into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class for agricultural inspector services unless not less thanbegin delete an unspecified percentend deletebegin insert
75%end insert of the agricultural inspector associates not afforded protections as permanent employees employed under the cooperative agreement are afforded protections as permanent employees.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for a county of the first class.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 486 of the Food and Agricultural Code
2 is amended to read:
Notwithstanding Section 482, the secretary may not enter
4into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class, as
5defined in Sectionbegin delete 28020end deletebegin insert 28022end insert of the Government Code, for
6agricultural inspector servicesbegin insert,end insert if the cooperative agreement
7requires that the county provide year-round services, unless not
8less than 66 percent of the agricultural inspector aides andbegin delete ____end delete
9begin insert
not less than 75end insert percent of the agricultural inspector associates not
10afforded protections as permanent employees employed under the
11cooperative agreement are afforded protections as permanent
12employees under the county’s civil service or other personnel
13system.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special law
15is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable
16within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
17Constitution because of the unique circumstances of agricultural
18inspector associates in a county of the first class.
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