California Senate Bill SB196 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 196INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Cannella FEBRUARY 8, 2011 An act to amend Section 434 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to state agriculture. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 196, as introduced, Cannella. State agriculture: informational materials. Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to issue and cause to be printed and distributed to county agricultural commissioners, and to other persons as specified, illustrative materials or statements which contain information which is best adapted to advance the interest, business, and development of agriculture in the state. Existing law also authorizes the department to broadcast portions of illustrative materials or statements to exhibit or display data and material that have been collected or prepared, and to incur expenses which are necessarily incidental to the exhibit or display of that data and material. This bill would make technical, 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 contain all the information which 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 may exhibit or display  such  data and material  as   that  have been collected or prepared, and may incur expenses which are necessarily incidental to the exhibit or display of  such   that data and material.