BILL NUMBER: SB 217	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cannella

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2015

   An act to amend Section 434 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to agriculture.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 217, as introduced, Cannella. Department of Food and
Agriculture: powers and duties.
   Existing law requires the Department of Food Agriculture to print
and distribute bulletins, charts, photographs, or other illustrative
material or statements that contain information best adapted to
advance the interest, business, and development of agriculture in the
state, and authorizes the department to broadcast the illustrative
material or statements and to exhibit or display data and material,
as provided.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   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 434 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:
   434.  The department shall issue and cause to be printed and
distributed to the commissioners, and to  such 
other persons as it may deem proper, bulletins, charts, photographs
 ,  or other illustrative material or statements 
which   that  contain all the information 
which   that  is best adapted to advance the
interest, business, and development of agriculture in the state. The
department may broadcast  such   those 
portions of the illustrative material or statements  as
  that  are adapted to give effect to this code.
 It   The department  may exhibit or
display  such  data and material  as have
  that has  been collected or prepared, and may
incur expenses  which   that  are
necessarily incidental to the exhibit or display of  such
  the  data and material.