Melissa Hurtado
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 16
Author
Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to periodically publish and make available a list of reportable conditions that pose or may pose significant threats to public health, animal health, the environment, or the food supply. Under existing law, the document is known as the List of Reportable Conditions for Animals and Animal Products. Existing law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and requires any moneys that are directed by law to be paid into the fund to be expended solely for the enforcement of the law under which the moneys were derived. This bill would make it unlawful for a person to establish, operate, or maintain a laboratory providing services for the examination, diagnosis, analysis, testing, quantifying, or identification of any emergency or regulatory condition of poultry and livestock, which would include all diseases or conditions listed as emergency or regulatory conditions in the List of Reportable Conditions for Animals and Animal Products, unless the person obtains a certificate from the department authorizing the person to establish, operate, and maintain a laboratory that provides these services. The bill would exclude a laboratory approved, certified, or accredited by the state or the federal government to provide equivalent services from these requirements. The bill would require the department to prescribe procedures and requirements for certification of these laboratories and to develop regulations to implement these provisions. Before issuing a certificate, the bill would require the department to collect an application or renewal fee from an applicant, which the department would be authorized to adjust to cover its reasonable costs to implement laboratory certification requirements. The bill would authorize a civil penalty against a person who violates these provisions, as provided. The bill would require the proceeds of the application and renewal fees and any civil penalty to be deposited into the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund. Existing law provides that a violation of any law relating to animal and poultry quarantine and pest control is a misdemeanor. This bill would provide that a violation of the bill's provisions is not a crime.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 495, Statutes of 2021.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2335.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2612.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26).
August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
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 10. Noes 0.) (July 6).
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 887.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
Set for hearing April 19.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 688.) (April 6).
Set for hearing April 6.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 552.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI.
Set for hearing March 18.
(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
Read first time.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB703 | HTML |
| 02/19/21 - Introduced | |
| 03/11/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/08/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/08/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/07/21 - Enrolled | |
| 10/04/21 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/16/21- Senate Agriculture | |
| 04/02/21- Senate Judiciary | |
| 04/21/21- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/15/21- Assembly Agriculture | |
| 07/02/21- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 08/16/21- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/31/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/01/21- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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