California Assembly Bill AB629 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 629INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Perea FEBRUARY 24, 2015 An act to amend Sections 62070 and 62071 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to market milk. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 629, as introduced, Perea. Market milk. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to formulate stabilization and marketing plans that establish the prices to be paid by milk handlers for specified classes of market milk. Existing law provides that a stabilization and marketing plan may provide for, among other things, maximum charges for plant processing and transportation services, and minimum charges for the various services performed by a nonprofit cooperative association regarding class 1 market milk. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions regarding maximum and minimum charges, including updating a cross-reference. 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 62070 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read: 62070. Each stabilization and marketing plan may further provide for maximum charges for plant processing and transportation service on the market milk or market milk components  which   that  are transported to the area where sold. The stabilization and marketing plan may enumerate the applicable maximum charges, and may establish individual charges for each function enumerated. In establishing any  such  maximum charges for  such  transportation services, the  director   secretary  shall base  such   the  maximum charges upon the rates  which   that  are charged for actual or reasonably similar services by highway carriers, as the term "highway carriers" is defined in  Secton 3511   Section 737.3  of the Public Utilities Code. SEC. 2. Section 62071 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read: 62071. Each stabilization and marketing plan may provide for minimum charges for the various services performed or rendered by a nonprofit cooperative association  in   with  respect to class 1 market milk sold or delivered to another handler. Handler services include component testing for payment purposes, quality control, producer payroll,  and  weighing and sampling of bulk market milk. Each  stablization   stabilization  and marketing plan may also include, but not be limited to, minimum charges for the handling of intermittent or irregular deliveries of market milk and plant standby services. The stabilization and marketing plan may enumerate applicable minimum charges and establish individual charges for each service enumerated or, in the alternative, the  director   secretary  may establish one or more minimum charges covering one or more of the separate handler services.