California 2017 2017-2018 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB2909 Introduced / Bill

Filed 02/16/2018

                    CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2909Introduced by Assembly Member WoodFebruary 16, 2018 An act relating to poultry. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2909, as introduced, Wood. Poultry producers. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt by regulation standards and requirements equal to those of the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, including, but not limited to, standards and requirements for inspection, sanitation, reinspection, preparation, processing, buying, selling, transporting, storing, identification, recordkeeping, registration, and labeling.Existing law generally regulates the inspection of poultry plant sanitation and poultry products for wholesomeness. Existing law prohibits poultry meat, which includes domesticated fowl and rabbit, from being packed, repacked, cut up, recut, or sold unless each container or each carcass is marked in a specified manner. Existing law requires poultry meat inspectors to inspect and classify poultry meat, poultry meat product, and poultry meat food product as either wholesome, retained for further inspection, or condemned for human food. Existing law exempts from these provisions poultry meat that is derived from poultry that is produced on the premises where it is slaughtered if the poultry meat is sold by the producer at retail on the premise or at retail by the producer of the poultry meat off of the premises, direct to consumers, as specified.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers.

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2909Introduced by Assembly Member WoodFebruary 16, 2018 An act relating to poultry. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2909, as introduced, Wood. Poultry producers. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt by regulation standards and requirements equal to those of the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, including, but not limited to, standards and requirements for inspection, sanitation, reinspection, preparation, processing, buying, selling, transporting, storing, identification, recordkeeping, registration, and labeling.Existing law generally regulates the inspection of poultry plant sanitation and poultry products for wholesomeness. Existing law prohibits poultry meat, which includes domesticated fowl and rabbit, from being packed, repacked, cut up, recut, or sold unless each container or each carcass is marked in a specified manner. Existing law requires poultry meat inspectors to inspect and classify poultry meat, poultry meat product, and poultry meat food product as either wholesome, retained for further inspection, or condemned for human food. Existing law exempts from these provisions poultry meat that is derived from poultry that is produced on the premises where it is slaughtered if the poultry meat is sold by the producer at retail on the premise or at retail by the producer of the poultry meat off of the premises, direct to consumers, as specified.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO 





 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 2909

Introduced by Assembly Member WoodFebruary 16, 2018

Introduced by Assembly Member Wood
February 16, 2018

 An act relating to poultry. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2909, as introduced, Wood. Poultry producers.

 Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt by regulation standards and requirements equal to those of the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, including, but not limited to, standards and requirements for inspection, sanitation, reinspection, preparation, processing, buying, selling, transporting, storing, identification, recordkeeping, registration, and labeling.Existing law generally regulates the inspection of poultry plant sanitation and poultry products for wholesomeness. Existing law prohibits poultry meat, which includes domesticated fowl and rabbit, from being packed, repacked, cut up, recut, or sold unless each container or each carcass is marked in a specified manner. Existing law requires poultry meat inspectors to inspect and classify poultry meat, poultry meat product, and poultry meat food product as either wholesome, retained for further inspection, or condemned for human food. Existing law exempts from these provisions poultry meat that is derived from poultry that is produced on the premises where it is slaughtered if the poultry meat is sold by the producer at retail on the premise or at retail by the producer of the poultry meat off of the premises, direct to consumers, as specified.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers. 

 Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt by regulation standards and requirements equal to those of the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, including, but not limited to, standards and requirements for inspection, sanitation, reinspection, preparation, processing, buying, selling, transporting, storing, identification, recordkeeping, registration, and labeling.

Existing law generally regulates the inspection of poultry plant sanitation and poultry products for wholesomeness. Existing law prohibits poultry meat, which includes domesticated fowl and rabbit, from being packed, repacked, cut up, recut, or sold unless each container or each carcass is marked in a specified manner. Existing law requires poultry meat inspectors to inspect and classify poultry meat, poultry meat product, and poultry meat food product as either wholesome, retained for further inspection, or condemned for human food. Existing law exempts from these provisions poultry meat that is derived from poultry that is produced on the premises where it is slaughtered if the poultry meat is sold by the producer at retail on the premise or at retail by the producer of the poultry meat off of the premises, direct to consumers, as specified.

This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers. 

## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to poultry producers.

### SECTION 1.