Bill Text: CA SB1308 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Food: grocers: display of farm product price.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-04 - To Com. on F. & A. [SB1308 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1308-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1308	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Maldonado

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to add Section 110388 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to food.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1308, as introduced, Maldonado. Food: grocers: display of farm
product price.
   Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, requires
the State Department of Public Health to regulate the manufacture,
sale, labeling, and advertising activities related to food, drugs,
devices, and cosmetics in conformity with the federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act. A violation of these provisions is a crime.
   This bill would require a grocer that directly buys farm products,
as defined, from a farmer to display the price the grocer paid the
farmer for his or her farm product. The price would be required to be
displayed underneath the price the grocer is charging the consumer
for the farm product. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose
a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 110388 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   110388.  (a) A grocer that directly buys farm products from a
farmer shall display the price the grocer paid the farmer for this or
her farm product. The price paid to the farmer shall be displayed
underneath the price the grocer is charging the consumer for that
farm product.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "farm product" means fruits,
nuts, or vegetables.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.