Bill Text: CA SB1308 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1308 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Public educational institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-28 - June 29 hearing postponed by committee. [SB1308 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB1308-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1308

Introduced by Senator Caballero

February 18, 2022

An act to add Section 58596 to the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to agricultural products.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1308, as introduced, Caballero. Institutional purchasers: agricultural products: definition.

Existing law requires all California state-owned or state-run institutions, except public universities and colleges and school districts, to purchase an agricultural product grown in California when the bid or price of the California-grown agricultural product does not exceed by more than 5% the lowest bid or price for an agricultural product produced outside the state and the quality of the California-grown agricultural product is comparable. Existing law also requires the institutions, when they solicit or intend to accept a bid or price for agricultural products grown outside the state, to accept the bid or price from a vendor that packs or processes these agricultural products in the state before accepting a bid or price from a vendor that packs or processes these agricultural products outside of the state when specified conditions are met. Existing law requires a school district that solicits bids for the purchase of an agricultural product to accept a bid or price for that agricultural product when it is grown in California before accepting a bid or price for an agricultural product that is grown outside the state when the bid or price of the California-grown agricultural product does not exceed the lowest bid or price for an agricultural product produced outside the state and the quality of the California-grown agricultural product is comparable.

This bill would define the term “agricultural product” for these purposes to mean a fresh or processed product, as specified.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 58596 is added to the Food and Agricultural Code, immediately following Section 58595, to read:

58596.

For purposes of this chapter, “agricultural product” means a fresh or processed product, including fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, dairy, shell eggs, honey, pollen, unprocessed bees wax, propolis, royal jelly, flowers, grains, nursery stock, raw sheared wool, livestock meats, poultry meats, rabbit meats, and fish, including shellfish.