Jerry Hill
- Democratic
Author
(1) Existing law regulates the distribution and use of livestock drugs, as defined, by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. Existing law also requires a person to obtain a license from the secretary to manufacture, sell, distribute, or store commercial feed, including commercial feed containing drugs. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2018, prohibit the administration of medically important antimicrobial drugs, as defined, to livestock unless ordered by a licensed veterinarian through a prescription or veterinary feed directive pursuant to a veterinarian-client-patient relationship, as specified, and would prohibit the administration of a medically important antimicrobial drug to livestock solely for purposes of promoting weight gain or improving feed efficiency. The bill would require the Department of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with the Veterinary Medical Board, the State Department of Public Health, universities, and cooperative extensions, to develop antimicrobial stewardship guidelines and best management practices on the proper use of medically important antimicrobial drugs and would require the department to gather information on medically important antimicrobial drug sales and usage, antimicrobial resistant bacteria, and livestock management practice data. The bill would require information provided pursuant to those provisions to be held confidential, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to request and receive copies of veterinary feed directives from certain persons to implement the bill's provisions. The bill would make a first violation of the bill's provisions subject to a civil penalty of up to $250 for each day a violation occurs, and would make second and subsequent violations subject to an administrative fine of $500 for each day a violation occurs, except as specified. (2) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 758, Statutes of 2015.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 6. Page 3185.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 2775.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 9).
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 27).
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
(Corrected August 17)
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 1).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 1250.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1146.) (May 28).
Set for hearing May 28.
May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 4.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 698.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 21.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 1.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB27 | HTML |
| 12/01/14 - Introduced | |
| 06/01/15 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/25/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/08/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/14/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/17/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/31/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/04/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/10/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/16/15 - Enrolled | |
| 10/10/15 - Chaptered |
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