Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 744

Relating to: licenses for new dairy plants, food warehouses, food processing plants, retail food establishments, and meat establishments. (FE)

Agriculture, trade and consumer protection, department of Dairy plants Food Food preservation Livestock and meat Warehouse

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer

Protection issues annual licenses for dairy plants, food warehouses, food processing

plants, retail food establishments, and meat establishments (places where animals

are slaughtered for human consumption or where meat is processed). An applicant

for a license must pay an annual license fee. There is a uniform expiration date for

each kind of facility, for example, all dairy plant licenses expire on April 30. When

a license is issued for a new facility during a license year, the license is valid only until

the uniform expiration date, that is, for less than one year.

Under this bill, if a license for a new dairy plant, food warehouse, food

processing plant, retail food establishment, or meat establishment is issued within

three months of the uniform expiration date for the kind of facility, the license is valid

until the uniform expiration date in the next calendar year, that is, for up to 15

months.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DATCP

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture, Ayes 13, Noes 3

Passed 13–3 Feb 13, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Agriculture, Small Business, and Tourism, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Mar 10, 2014 official source full page